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The Moon on Sunday, September 16, 2001: Waning Crescent, 2% lit

Waning · 1.5% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 10°

Moon age

28.4days

Moon phase on September 16, 2001Waning Crescent

Sunday 16 September 2001358,142 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 16, 2001, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.5% of its visible face lit, 28.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.5%Illumination at noon UTC
28.4 dMoon age
358,142 km222,539 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (10°)
33.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 16, 2001 is on Sunday, September 2, 2001 at 21:43 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, September 17, 2001 at 10:27 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around September 16

More about this date

Sunday, September 16, 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.