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The Moon on Tuesday, September 15, 1998: Waning Crescent, 25% lit

Waning · 25.1% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 22°

Moon age

24.4days

Moon phase on September 15, 1998Waning Crescent

Tuesday 15 September 1998385,466 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, September 15, 1998, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 25.1% of its visible face lit, 24.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

25.1%Illumination at noon UTC
24.4 dMoon age
385,466 km239,517 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (23°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 15, 1998 is on Sunday, September 6, 1998 at 11:21 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, September 20, 1998 at 17:02 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, September 13, 199801:58
New Moon (after)Sunday, September 20, 199817:02

The Moon around September 15

More about this date

Tuesday, September 15, 1998 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 22, 1998 to the new moon of September 20, 1998, a cycle of 29.62 days.