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The Moon on Sunday, October 18, 1959: Waning Gibbous, 97% lit

Waning · 96.8% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 14°

Moon age

16.0days

Moon phase on October 18, 1959Waning Gibbous

Sunday 18 October 1959403,340 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 18, 1959, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 96.8% of its visible face lit, 16.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

96.8%Illumination at noon UTC
16.0 dMoon age
403,340 km250,624 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (15°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 18, 1959 is on Friday, October 16, 1959 at 15:59 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, October 31, 1959 at 22:41 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, October 16, 195915:59
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, October 24, 195920:22

The Moon around October 18

More about this date

Sunday, October 18, 1959 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 2, 1959 to the new moon of October 31, 1959, a cycle of 29.42 days.