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The Moon on Friday, October 21, 1949: New Moon, 0% lit

Waning · 0.2% lit · ♎︎ Libra 22°

New Moon at

21:23UTC

Moon phase on October 21, 1949New Moon

Friday 21 October 1949357,116 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, October 21, 1949, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.2% of its visible face lit, 29.0 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.2%Illumination at noon UTC
29.0 dMoon age
357,116 km221,901 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (22°)
33.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 21, 1949 is on Friday, October 7, 1949 at 02:53 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, October 21, 1949 at 21:23 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, October 15, 194904:06
New Moon (this day)Friday, October 21, 194921:23
First Quarter (after)Friday, October 28, 194917:04

The Moon around October 21

More about this date

Friday, October 21, 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.