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The Moon on Tuesday, October 21, 1919: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 5.4% lit · ♎︎ Libra 00°

Moon age

27.3days

Moon phase on October 21, 1919Waning Crescent

Tuesday 21 October 1919396,884 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, October 21, 1919, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 5.4% of its visible face lit, 27.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

5.4%Illumination at noon UTC
27.3 dMoon age
396,884 km246,612 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (1°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 21, 1919 is on Thursday, October 9, 1919 at 13:38 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, October 23, 1919 at 20:39 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, October 16, 191905:05
New Moon (after)Thursday, October 23, 191920:39

The Moon around October 21

More about this date

Tuesday, October 21, 1919 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 24, 1919 to the new moon of October 23, 1919, a cycle of 29.67 days.