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The Moon on Thursday, October 13, 1949: Waning Gibbous, 67% lit

Waning · 66.9% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 00°

Moon age

21.0days

Moon phase on October 13, 1949Waning Gibbous

Thursday 13 October 1949393,709 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, October 13, 1949, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 66.9% of its visible face lit, 21.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

66.9%Illumination at noon UTC
21.0 dMoon age
393,709 km244,639 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (0°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 13, 1949 is on Friday, October 7, 1949 at 02:53 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, October 21, 1949 at 21:23 UTC, 8 days later.

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

The Moon around October 13

More about this date

Thursday, October 13, 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.