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The Moon on Friday, September 30, 1983: Waning Crescent, 43% lit

Waning · 42.7% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 15°

Moon age

23.4days

Moon phase on September 30, 1983Waning Crescent

Friday 30 September 1983371,641 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, September 30, 1983, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 42.7% of its visible face lit, 23.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

42.7%Illumination at noon UTC
23.4 dMoon age
371,641 km230,927 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (15°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 30, 1983 is on Thursday, September 22, 1983 at 06:36 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, October 6, 1983 at 11:16 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, September 29, 198320:05
New Moon (after)Thursday, October 6, 198311:16

The Moon around September 30

More about this date

Friday, September 30, 1983 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 7, 1983 to the new moon of October 6, 1983, a cycle of 29.36 days.