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The Moon on Wednesday, September 12, 2001: Waning Crescent, 32% lit

Waning · 31.7% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 11°

Moon age

24.4days

Moon phase on September 12, 2001Waning Crescent

Wednesday 12 September 2001371,461 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, September 12, 2001, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 31.7% of its visible face lit, 24.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

31.7%Illumination at noon UTC
24.4 dMoon age
371,461 km230,815 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (11°)
32.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

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

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, September 10, 200119:00
New Moon (after)Monday, September 17, 200110:27

The Moon around September 12

More about this date

Wednesday, September 12, 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.