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The Moon on Wednesday, September 24, 2003: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 3.8% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 09°

Moon age

27.8days

Moon phase on September 24, 2003Waning Crescent

Wednesday 24 September 2003372,862 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.8% of its visible face lit, 27.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.8%Illumination at noon UTC
27.8 dMoon age
372,862 km231,685 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (9°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 24, 2003 is on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 at 16:36 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 26, 2003 at 03:09 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around September 24

More about this date

Wednesday, September 24, 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.