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The Moon on Tuesday, September 11, 2012: Waning Crescent, 23% lit

Waning · 23.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 22°

Moon age

24.8days

Moon phase on September 11, 2012Waning Crescent

Tuesday 11 September 2012393,407 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, September 11, 2012, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 23.0% of its visible face lit, 24.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

23.0%Illumination at noon UTC
24.8 dMoon age
393,407 km244,452 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (22°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 11, 2012 is on Friday, August 31, 2012 at 13:58 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, September 16, 2012 at 02:11 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, September 8, 201213:15
New Moon (after)Sunday, September 16, 201202:11

The Moon around September 11

More about this date

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 17, 2012 to the new moon of September 16, 2012, a cycle of 29.43 days.