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The Moon on Thursday, September 12, 1991: Waxing Crescent, 19% lit

Waxing · 18.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 10°

Moon age

4.0days

Moon phase on September 12, 1991Waxing Crescent

Thursday 12 September 1991388,961 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, September 12, 1991, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 18.9% of its visible face lit, 4.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

18.9%Illumination at noon UTC
4.0 dMoon age
388,961 km241,689 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (10°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 12, 1991 is on Monday, September 23, 1991 at 22:40 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, September 8, 1991 at 11:01 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, September 8, 199111:01
First Quarter (after)Sunday, September 15, 199122:02

The Moon around September 12

More about this date

Thursday, September 12, 1991 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 8, 1991 to the new moon of October 7, 1991, a cycle of 29.44 days.