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The Moon on Tuesday, September 22, 2009: Waxing Crescent, 17% lit

Waxing · 16.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 17°

Moon age

3.7days

Moon phase on September 22, 2009Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 22 September 2009386,243 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, September 22, 2009, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 16.5% of its visible face lit, 3.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

16.5%Illumination at noon UTC
3.7 dMoon age
386,243 km240,000 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (17°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 22, 2009 is on Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 06:10 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 18, 2009 at 18:44 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, September 18, 200918:44
First Quarter (after)Saturday, September 26, 200904:50

The Moon around September 22

More about this date

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 18, 2009 to the new moon of October 18, 2009, a cycle of 29.45 days.