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The Moon on Tuesday, September 16, 2003: Waning Gibbous, 71% lit

Waning · 71.2% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 28°

Moon age

19.8days

Moon phase on September 16, 2003Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 16 September 2003404,694 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 71.2% of its visible face lit, 19.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

71.2%Illumination at noon UTC
19.8 dMoon age
404,694 km251,465 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (28°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 16, 2003 is on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 at 16:36 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 26, 2003 at 03:09 UTC, 10 days later.

The Moon around September 16

More about this date

Tuesday, September 16, 2003 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 27, 2003 to the new moon of September 26, 2003, a cycle of 29.40 days.