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The Moon on Wednesday, September 27, 2006: Waxing Crescent, 22% lit

Waxing · 21.6% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 29°

Moon age

5.0days

Moon phase on September 27, 2006Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 27 September 2006396,910 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, September 27, 2006, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 21.6% of its visible face lit, 5.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

21.6%Illumination at noon UTC
5.0 dMoon age
396,910 km246,629 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (29°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 27, 2006 is on Saturday, October 7, 2006 at 03:13 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 22, 2006 at 11:45 UTC, 5 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, September 22, 200611:45
First Quarter (after)Saturday, September 30, 200611:04

The Moon around September 27

More about this date

Wednesday, September 27, 2006 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 22, 2006 to the new moon of October 22, 2006, a cycle of 29.73 days.