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The Moon on Friday, September 26, 1986: Last Quarter, 47% lit

Waning · 46.7% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 07°

Last Quarter at

03:18UTC

Moon phase on September 26, 1986Last Quarter

Friday 26 September 1986403,559 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, September 26, 1986, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 46.7% of its visible face lit, 22.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

46.7%Illumination at noon UTC
22.2 dMoon age
403,559 km250,760 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (7°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 26, 1986 is on Thursday, September 18, 1986 at 05:34 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, October 3, 1986 at 18:55 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, September 18, 198605:34
Last Quarter (this day)Friday, September 26, 198603:18
New Moon (after)Friday, October 3, 198618:55

The Moon around September 26

More about this date

Friday, September 26, 1986 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 4, 1986 to the new moon of October 3, 1986, a cycle of 29.49 days.