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The Moon on Friday, September 13, 2002: First Quarter, 47% lit

Waxing · 47.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 17°

First Quarter at

18:08UTC

Moon phase on September 13, 2002First Quarter

Friday 13 September 2002377,848 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, September 13, 2002, the Moon was a First Quarter: 47.3% of its visible face lit, 6.4 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

47.3%Illumination at noon UTC
6.4 dMoon age
377,848 km234,784 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (17°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 13, 2002 is on Saturday, September 21, 2002 at 13:59 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, September 7, 2002 at 03:10 UTC, 6 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, September 7, 200203:10
First Quarter (this day)Friday, September 13, 200218:08
Full Moon (after)Saturday, September 21, 200213:59

The Moon around September 13

More about this date

Friday, September 13, 2002 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 7, 2002 to the new moon of October 6, 2002, a cycle of 29.34 days.