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The Moon on Sunday, September 18, 2016: Waning Gibbous, 96% lit

Waning · 95.8% lit · ♈︎ Aries 19°

Moon age

17.1days

Moon phase on September 18, 2016Waning Gibbous

Sunday 18 September 2016361,916 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 18, 2016, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 95.8% of its visible face lit, 17.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.8%Illumination at noon UTC
17.1 dMoon age
361,916 km224,884 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (19°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 18, 2016 is on Friday, September 16, 2016 at 19:05 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, October 1, 2016 at 00:12 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, September 16, 201619:05
Last Quarter (after)Friday, September 23, 201609:56

The Moon around September 18

More about this date

Sunday, September 18, 2016 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 1, 2016 to the new moon of October 1, 2016, a cycle of 29.63 days.