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The Moon on Sunday, September 11, 2005: First Quarter, 50% lit

Waxing · 50.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 19°

First Quarter at

11:37UTC

Moon phase on September 11, 2005First Quarter

Sunday 11 September 2005376,141 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 11, 2005, the Moon was a First Quarter: 50.3% of its visible face lit, 7.7 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

50.3%Illumination at noon UTC
7.7 dMoon age
376,141 km233,723 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (19°)
31.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 11, 2005 is on Sunday, September 18, 2005 at 02:01 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, September 3, 2005 at 18:46 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, September 3, 200518:46
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, September 11, 200511:37
Full Moon (after)Sunday, September 18, 200502:01

The Moon around September 11

More about this date

Sunday, September 11, 2005 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 3, 2005 to the new moon of October 3, 2005, a cycle of 29.65 days.