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The Moon on Sunday, September 22, 2002: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.1% lit · ♈︎ Aries 09°

Moon age

15.4days

Moon phase on September 22, 2002Waning Gibbous

Sunday 22 September 2002406,194 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 22, 2002, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.1% of its visible face lit, 15.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.1%Illumination at noon UTC
15.4 dMoon age
406,194 km252,397 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (9°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 22, 2002 is on Saturday, September 21, 2002 at 13:59 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, October 6, 2002 at 11:18 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, September 21, 200213:59
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, September 29, 200217:03

The Moon around September 22

More about this date

Sunday, September 22, 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.