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The Moon on Monday, October 18, 1954: Last Quarter, 54% lit

Waning · 54.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 20°

Last Quarter at

20:30UTC

Moon phase on October 18, 1954Last Quarter

Monday 18 October 1954378,300 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, October 18, 1954, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 54.0% of its visible face lit, 21.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

54.0%Illumination at noon UTC
21.5 dMoon age
378,300 km235,064 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (20°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 18, 1954 is on Tuesday, October 12, 1954 at 05:10 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, October 26, 1954 at 17:47 UTC, 8 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, October 12, 195405:10
Last Quarter (this day)Monday, October 18, 195420:30
New Moon (after)Tuesday, October 26, 195417:47

The Moon around October 18

More about this date

Monday, October 18, 1954 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 27, 1954 to the new moon of October 26, 1954, a cycle of 29.71 days.