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The Moon on Thursday, September 29, 2011: Waxing Crescent, 6% lit

Waxing · 6.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 04°

Moon age

2.0days

Moon phase on September 29, 2011Waxing Crescent

Thursday 29 September 2011359,540 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, September 29, 2011, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 6.4% of its visible face lit, 2.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

6.4%Illumination at noon UTC
2.0 dMoon age
359,540 km223,408 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (5°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 29, 2011 is on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 02:06 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 11:09 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, September 27, 201111:09
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, October 4, 201103:15

The Moon around September 29

More about this date

Thursday, September 29, 2011 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 27, 2011 to the new moon of October 26, 2011, a cycle of 29.37 days.