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The Moon on Sunday, September 21, 2003: Waning Crescent, 25% lit

Waning · 24.6% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 28°

Moon age

24.8days

Moon phase on September 21, 2003Waning Crescent

Sunday 21 September 2003389,410 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 21, 2003, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 24.6% of its visible face lit, 24.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

24.6%Illumination at noon UTC
24.8 dMoon age
389,410 km241,968 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (29°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 21, 2003 is on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 at 16:36 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 26, 2003 at 03:09 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, September 18, 200319:03
New Moon (after)Friday, September 26, 200303:09

The Moon around September 21

More about this date

Sunday, September 21, 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.