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The Moon on Sunday, September 12, 2010: Waxing Crescent, 22% lit

Waxing · 22.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 15°

Moon age

4.1days

Moon phase on September 12, 2010Waxing Crescent

Sunday 12 September 2010372,879 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 12, 2010, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 22.3% of its visible face lit, 4.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

22.3%Illumination at noon UTC
4.1 dMoon age
372,879 km231,696 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (16°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 12, 2010 is on Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 09:17 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 10:30 UTC, 4 days earlier.

The Moon around September 12

More about this date

Sunday, September 12, 2010 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 8, 2010 to the new moon of October 7, 2010, a cycle of 29.34 days.