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The Moon on Sunday, September 5, 2010: Waning Crescent, 13% lit

Waning · 12.6% lit · ♌︎ Leo 01°

Moon age

26.4days

Moon phase on September 5, 2010Waning Crescent

Sunday 5 September 2010363,652 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 5, 2010, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 12.6% of its visible face lit, 26.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

12.6%Illumination at noon UTC
26.4 dMoon age
363,652 km225,963 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (1°)
32.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 5, 2010 is on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 17:05 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 10:30 UTC, 3 days later.

The Moon around September 5

More about this date

Sunday, September 5, 2010 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 10, 2010 to the new moon of September 8, 2010, a cycle of 29.31 days.