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The Moon on Sunday, September 7, 2008: First Quarter, 49% lit

Waxing · 49.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 14°

First Quarter at

14:04UTC

Moon phase on September 7, 2008First Quarter

Sunday 7 September 2008404,192 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 7, 2008, the Moon was a First Quarter: 49.3% of its visible face lit, 7.7 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

49.3%Illumination at noon UTC
7.7 dMoon age
404,192 km251,153 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (14°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 7, 2008 is on Monday, September 15, 2008 at 09:14 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 30, 2008 at 19:58 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, August 30, 200819:58
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, September 7, 200814:04
Full Moon (after)Monday, September 15, 200809:14

The Moon around September 7

More about this date

Sunday, September 7, 2008 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 30, 2008 to the new moon of September 29, 2008, a cycle of 29.51 days.