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The Moon on Tuesday, October 21, 1941: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 1.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 10°

Moon age

0.9days

Moon phase on October 21, 1941Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 21 October 1941358,643 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, October 21, 1941, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 1.3% of its visible face lit, 0.9 days after the new moon and growing each night.

1.3%Illumination at noon UTC
0.9 dMoon age
358,643 km222,850 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (10°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 21, 1941 is on Tuesday, November 4, 1941 at 02:00 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, October 20, 1941 at 14:20 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, October 20, 194114:20
First Quarter (after)Monday, October 27, 194105:04

The Moon around October 21

More about this date

Tuesday, October 21, 1941 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 20, 1941 to the new moon of November 19, 1941, a cycle of 29.41 days.