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The Moon on Sunday, October 9, 1949: Waning Gibbous, 95% lit

Waning · 95.0% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 11°

Moon age

17.0days

Moon phase on October 9, 1949Waning Gibbous

Sunday 9 October 1949405,215 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 9, 1949, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 95.0% of its visible face lit, 17.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.0%Illumination at noon UTC
17.0 dMoon age
405,215 km251,789 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (12°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 9, 1949 is on Friday, October 7, 1949 at 02:53 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, October 21, 1949 at 21:23 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, October 7, 194902:53
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, October 15, 194904:06

The Moon around October 9

More about this date

Sunday, October 9, 1949 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 22, 1949 to the new moon of October 21, 1949, a cycle of 29.38 days.