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The Moon on Sunday, October 23, 1949: Waxing Crescent, 4% lit

Waxing · 4.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 22°

Moon age

1.6days

Moon phase on October 23, 1949Waxing Crescent

Sunday 23 October 1949360,483 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 23, 1949, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 4.0% of its visible face lit, 1.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

4.0%Illumination at noon UTC
1.6 dMoon age
360,483 km223,993 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (22°)
33.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 23, 1949 is on Saturday, November 5, 1949 at 21:09 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, October 21, 1949 at 21:23 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, October 21, 194921:23
First Quarter (after)Friday, October 28, 194917:04

The Moon around October 23

More about this date

Sunday, October 23, 1949 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 21, 1949 to the new moon of November 20, 1949, a cycle of 29.42 days.