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The Moon on Sunday, September 27, 1998: Waxing Crescent, 37% lit

Waxing · 36.7% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 18°

Moon age

6.8days

Moon phase on September 27, 1998Waxing Crescent

Sunday 27 September 1998399,616 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 27, 1998, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 36.7% of its visible face lit, 6.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

36.7%Illumination at noon UTC
6.8 dMoon age
399,616 km248,310 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (19°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 27, 1998 is on Monday, October 5, 1998 at 20:12 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, September 20, 1998 at 17:02 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, September 20, 199817:02
First Quarter (after)Monday, September 28, 199821:11

The Moon around September 27

More about this date

Sunday, September 27, 1998 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 20, 1998 to the new moon of October 20, 1998, a cycle of 29.71 days.