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The Moon on Tuesday, October 2, 1917: Waning Gibbous, 96% lit

Waning · 95.9% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 01°

Moon age

16.1days

Moon phase on October 2, 1917Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 2 October 1917365,604 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, October 2, 1917, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 95.9% of its visible face lit, 16.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.9%Illumination at noon UTC
16.1 dMoon age
365,604 km227,176 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (2°)
32.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 2, 1917 is on Sunday, September 30, 1917 at 20:31 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, October 16, 1917 at 02:41 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, September 30, 191720:31
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, October 7, 191722:14

The Moon around October 2

More about this date

Tuesday, October 2, 1917 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 16, 1917 to the new moon of October 16, 1917, a cycle of 29.68 days.