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The Moon on Sunday, September 29, 1996: Waning Gibbous, 93% lit

Waning · 92.8% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 07°

Moon age

16.5days

Moon phase on September 29, 1996Waning Gibbous

Sunday 29 September 1996377,354 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 29, 1996, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 92.8% of its visible face lit, 16.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

92.8%Illumination at noon UTC
16.5 dMoon age
377,354 km234,477 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (8°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 29, 1996 is on Friday, September 27, 1996 at 02:51 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, October 12, 1996 at 14:15 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, September 27, 199602:51
Last Quarter (after)Friday, October 4, 199612:04

The Moon around September 29

More about this date

Sunday, September 29, 1996 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 12, 1996 to the new moon of October 12, 1996, a cycle of 29.63 days.