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The Moon on Tuesday, September 8, 2009: Waning Gibbous, 85% lit

Waning · 85.3% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 00°

Moon age

19.1days

Moon phase on September 8, 2009Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 8 September 2009386,030 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, September 8, 2009, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 85.3% of its visible face lit, 19.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

85.3%Illumination at noon UTC
19.1 dMoon age
386,030 km239,868 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (1°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 8, 2009 is on Friday, September 4, 2009 at 16:03 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 18, 2009 at 18:44 UTC, 10 days later.

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

The Moon around September 8

More about this date

Tuesday, September 8, 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.