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The Moon on Sunday, September 8, 1996: Waning Crescent, 17% lit

Waning · 17.4% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 27°

Moon age

25.2days

Moon phase on September 8, 1996Waning Crescent

Sunday 8 September 1996405,560 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 8, 1996, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 17.4% of its visible face lit, 25.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

17.4%Illumination at noon UTC
25.2 dMoon age
405,560 km252,003 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (27°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 8, 1996 is on Wednesday, August 28, 1996 at 17:52 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 12, 1996 at 23:07 UTC, 4 days later.

The Moon around September 8

More about this date

Sunday, September 8, 1996 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 14, 1996 to the new moon of September 12, 1996, a cycle of 29.65 days.