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The Moon on Thursday, October 19, 1944: Waxing Crescent, 5% lit

Waxing · 5.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 21°

Moon age

2.3days

Moon phase on October 19, 1944Waxing Crescent

Thursday 19 October 1944398,434 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, October 19, 1944, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 5.0% of its visible face lit, 2.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

5.0%Illumination at noon UTC
2.3 dMoon age
398,434 km247,575 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (21°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 19, 1944 is on Tuesday, October 31, 1944 at 13:35 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, October 17, 1944 at 05:35 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, October 17, 194405:35
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, October 24, 194422:48

The Moon around October 19

More about this date

Thursday, October 19, 1944 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 17, 1944 to the new moon of November 15, 1944, a cycle of 29.70 days.