Skip to content
The Moon on Friday, October 11, 1940: Waxing Gibbous, 80% lit

Waxing · 80.3% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 25°

Moon age

10.0days

Moon phase on October 11, 1940Waxing Gibbous

Friday 11 October 1940400,510 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, October 11, 1940, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 80.3% of its visible face lit, 10.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

80.3%Illumination at noon UTC
10.0 dMoon age
400,510 km248,866 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (25°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 11, 1940 is on Wednesday, October 16, 1940 at 08:15 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, October 1, 1940 at 12:41 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Tuesday, October 8, 194006:18
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, October 16, 194008:15

The Moon around October 11

More about this date

Friday, October 11, 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.