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The Moon on Sunday, September 5, 1999: Waning Crescent, 22% lit

Waning · 22.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 16°

Moon age

25.0days

Moon phase on September 5, 1999Waning Crescent

Sunday 5 September 1999371,752 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 5, 1999, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 22.3% of its visible face lit, 25.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

22.3%Illumination at noon UTC
25.0 dMoon age
371,752 km230,996 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (16°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 5, 1999 is on Thursday, August 26, 1999 at 23:48 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 9, 1999 at 22:02 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, September 2, 199922:17
New Moon (after)Thursday, September 9, 199922:02

The Moon around September 5

More about this date

Sunday, September 5, 1999 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 11, 1999 to the new moon of September 9, 1999, a cycle of 29.45 days.