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The Moon on Sunday, October 21, 1900: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 3.9% lit · ♎︎ Libra 05°

Moon age

27.7days

Moon phase on October 21, 1900Waning Crescent

Sunday 21 October 1900406,332 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 21, 1900, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.9% of its visible face lit, 27.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.9%Illumination at noon UTC
27.7 dMoon age
406,332 km252,483 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (5°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 21, 1900 is on Monday, October 8, 1900 at 13:18 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, October 23, 1900 at 13:27 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, October 15, 190009:51
New Moon (after)Tuesday, October 23, 190013:27

The Moon around October 21

More about this date

Sunday, October 21, 1900 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 23, 1900 to the new moon of October 23, 1900, a cycle of 29.73 days.