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The Moon on Thursday, September 21, 2006: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.9% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 17°

Moon age

28.7days

Moon phase on September 21, 2006Waning Crescent

Thursday 21 September 2006406,314 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, September 21, 2006, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.9% of its visible face lit, 28.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.9%Illumination at noon UTC
28.7 dMoon age
406,314 km252,471 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (18°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 21, 2006 is on Thursday, September 7, 2006 at 18:42 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 22, 2006 at 11:45 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, September 14, 200611:16
New Moon (after)Friday, September 22, 200611:45

The Moon around September 21

More about this date

Thursday, September 21, 2006 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 23, 2006 to the new moon of September 22, 2006, a cycle of 29.69 days.