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The Moon on Thursday, October 3, 1940: Waxing Crescent, 6% lit

Waxing · 5.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 08°

Moon age

2.0days

Moon phase on October 3, 1940Waxing Crescent

Thursday 3 October 1940360,311 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, October 3, 1940, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 5.9% of its visible face lit, 2.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

5.9%Illumination at noon UTC
2.0 dMoon age
360,311 km223,887 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (8°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 3, 1940 is on Wednesday, October 16, 1940 at 08:15 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, October 1, 1940 at 12:41 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, October 1, 194012:41
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, October 8, 194006:18

The Moon around October 3

More about this date

Thursday, October 3, 1940 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 1, 1940 to the new moon of October 30, 1940, a cycle of 29.39 days.