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The Moon on Friday, September 18, 1998: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 4.6% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 00°

Moon age

27.4days

Moon phase on September 18, 1998Waning Crescent

Friday 18 September 1998396,407 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, September 18, 1998, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.6% of its visible face lit, 27.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.6%Illumination at noon UTC
27.4 dMoon age
396,407 km246,316 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (1°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 18, 1998 is on Sunday, September 6, 1998 at 11:21 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, September 20, 1998 at 17:02 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around September 18

More about this date

Friday, September 18, 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.