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The Moon on Tuesday, September 23, 2008: Waning Crescent, 36% lit

Waning · 35.6% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 17°

Moon age

23.7days

Moon phase on September 23, 2008Waning Crescent

Tuesday 23 September 2008372,092 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, September 23, 2008, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 35.6% of its visible face lit, 23.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

35.6%Illumination at noon UTC
23.7 dMoon age
372,092 km231,207 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (18°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 23, 2008 is on Monday, September 15, 2008 at 09:14 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, September 29, 2008 at 08:12 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, September 22, 200805:04
New Moon (after)Monday, September 29, 200808:12

The Moon around September 23

More about this date

Tuesday, September 23, 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.