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The Moon on Tuesday, October 29, 1940: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 3.0% lit · ♎︎ Libra 15°

Moon age

28.0days

Moon phase on October 29, 1940Waning Crescent

Tuesday 29 October 1940358,458 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, October 29, 1940, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.0% of its visible face lit, 28.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.0%Illumination at noon UTC
28.0 dMoon age
358,458 km222,735 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (16°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 29, 1940 is on Wednesday, October 16, 1940 at 08:15 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, October 30, 1940 at 22:03 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, October 24, 194006:04
New Moon (after)Wednesday, October 30, 194022:03

The Moon around October 29

More about this date

Tuesday, October 29, 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.