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The Moon on Tuesday, September 3, 2013: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 4.1% lit · ♌︎ Leo 18°

Moon age

27.6days

Moon phase on September 3, 2013Waning Crescent

Tuesday 3 September 2013398,887 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, September 3, 2013, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.1% of its visible face lit, 27.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.1%Illumination at noon UTC
27.6 dMoon age
398,887 km247,857 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (18°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 3, 2013 is on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 01:45 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 5, 2013 at 11:36 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, August 28, 201309:35
New Moon (after)Thursday, September 5, 201311:36

The Moon around September 3

More about this date

Tuesday, September 3, 2013 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 6, 2013 to the new moon of September 5, 2013, a cycle of 29.57 days.