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The Moon on Friday, September 15, 2017: Waning Crescent, 26% lit

Waning · 25.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 22°

Moon age

24.7days

Moon phase on September 15, 2017Waning Crescent

Friday 15 September 2017370,737 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, September 15, 2017, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 25.5% of its visible face lit, 24.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

25.5%Illumination at noon UTC
24.7 dMoon age
370,737 km230,365 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (22°)
32.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 15, 2017 is on Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 07:03 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 05:30 UTC, 5 days later.

The Moon around September 15

More about this date

Friday, September 15, 2017 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 21, 2017 to the new moon of September 20, 2017, a cycle of 29.46 days.