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The Moon on Tuesday, October 9, 1956: Waxing Crescent, 29% lit

Waxing · 28.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 20°

Moon age

5.3days

Moon phase on October 9, 1956Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 9 October 1956396,899 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, October 9, 1956, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 28.8% of its visible face lit, 5.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

28.8%Illumination at noon UTC
5.3 dMoon age
396,899 km246,622 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (21°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 9, 1956 is on Friday, October 19, 1956 at 17:25 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, October 4, 1956 at 04:25 UTC, 5 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, October 4, 195604:25
First Quarter (after)Thursday, October 11, 195618:44

The Moon around October 9

More about this date

Tuesday, October 9, 1956 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 4, 1956 to the new moon of November 2, 1956, a cycle of 29.51 days.