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The Moon on Thursday, September 27, 2012: Waxing Gibbous, 93% lit

Waxing · 92.6% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 03°

Moon age

11.4days

Moon phase on September 27, 2012Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 27 September 2012386,736 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, September 27, 2012, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 92.6% of its visible face lit, 11.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

92.6%Illumination at noon UTC
11.4 dMoon age
386,736 km240,306 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (4°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 27, 2012 is on Sunday, September 30, 2012 at 03:19 UTC, 3 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, September 16, 2012 at 02:11 UTC, 11 days earlier.

The Moon around September 27

More about this date

Thursday, September 27, 2012 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 16, 2012 to the new moon of October 15, 2012, a cycle of 29.41 days.