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The Moon on Monday, September 19, 1988: First Quarter, 54% lit

Waxing · 54.0% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 01°

First Quarter at

03:18UTC

Moon phase on September 19, 1988First Quarter

Monday 19 September 1988379,811 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, September 19, 1988, the Moon was a First Quarter: 54.0% of its visible face lit, 8.3 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

54.0%Illumination at noon UTC
8.3 dMoon age
379,811 km236,004 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (1°)
31.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 19, 1988 is on Sunday, September 25, 1988 at 19:07 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, September 11, 1988 at 04:49 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, September 11, 198804:49
First Quarter (this day)Monday, September 19, 198803:18
Full Moon (after)Sunday, September 25, 198819:07

The Moon around September 19

More about this date

Monday, September 19, 1988 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 11, 1988 to the new moon of October 10, 1988, a cycle of 29.71 days.