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The Moon on Wednesday, September 17, 2014: Waning Crescent, 36% lit

Waning · 36.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 10°

Moon age

22.9days

Moon phase on September 17, 2014Waning Crescent

Wednesday 17 September 2014400,778 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, September 17, 2014, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 36.5% of its visible face lit, 22.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

36.5%Illumination at noon UTC
22.9 dMoon age
400,778 km249,032 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (10°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 17, 2014 is on Tuesday, September 9, 2014 at 01:38 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, September 24, 2014 at 06:14 UTC, 7 days later.

The Moon around September 17

More about this date

Wednesday, September 17, 2014 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 25, 2014 to the new moon of September 24, 2014, a cycle of 29.67 days.