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The Moon on Wednesday, September 5, 2001: Waning Gibbous, 94% lit

Waning · 93.8% lit · ♈︎ Aries 11°

Moon age

17.4days

Moon phase on September 5, 2001Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 5 September 2001402,244 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, September 5, 2001, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 93.8% of its visible face lit, 17.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

93.8%Illumination at noon UTC
17.4 dMoon age
402,244 km249,943 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (12°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 5, 2001 is on Sunday, September 2, 2001 at 21:43 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, September 17, 2001 at 10:27 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, September 2, 200121:43
Last Quarter (after)Monday, September 10, 200119:00

The Moon around September 5

More about this date

Wednesday, September 5, 2001 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 19, 2001 to the new moon of September 17, 2001, a cycle of 29.31 days.