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The Moon on Sunday, October 5, 1958: Waning Gibbous, 56% lit

Waning · 55.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 05°

Moon age

22.0days

Moon phase on October 5, 1958Waning Gibbous

Sunday 5 October 1958392,280 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 5, 1958, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 55.8% of its visible face lit, 22.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

55.8%Illumination at noon UTC
22.0 dMoon age
392,280 km243,751 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (5°)
30.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 5, 1958 is on Saturday, September 27, 1958 at 21:44 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, October 12, 1958 at 20:52 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, September 27, 195821:44
Last Quarter (after)Monday, October 6, 195801:20

The Moon around October 5

More about this date

Sunday, October 5, 1958 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 13, 1958 to the new moon of October 12, 1958, a cycle of 29.37 days.