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The Moon on Wednesday, October 27, 1954: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 0.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 11°

Moon age

0.8days

Moon phase on October 27, 1954Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 27 October 1954406,523 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, October 27, 1954, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.7% of its visible face lit, 0.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.7%Illumination at noon UTC
0.8 dMoon age
406,523 km252,602 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (12°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 27, 1954 is on Wednesday, November 10, 1954 at 14:29 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, October 26, 1954 at 17:47 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, October 26, 195417:47
First Quarter (after)Wednesday, November 3, 195420:55

The Moon around October 27

More about this date

Wednesday, October 27, 1954 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 26, 1954 to the new moon of November 25, 1954, a cycle of 29.78 days.