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The Moon on Sunday, September 6, 2009: Waning Gibbous, 97% lit

Waning · 96.5% lit · ♈︎ Aries 05°

Moon age

17.1days

Moon phase on September 6, 2009Waning Gibbous

Sunday 6 September 2009392,842 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 6, 2009, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 96.5% of its visible face lit, 17.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

96.5%Illumination at noon UTC
17.1 dMoon age
392,842 km244,100 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (5°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 6, 2009 is on Friday, September 4, 2009 at 16:03 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 18, 2009 at 18:44 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, September 4, 200916:03
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, September 12, 200902:16

The Moon around September 6

More about this date

Sunday, September 6, 2009 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 20, 2009 to the new moon of September 18, 2009, a cycle of 29.36 days.