Skip to content
The Moon on Friday, October 30, 1959: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 3.0% lit · ♎︎ Libra 16°

Moon age

28.0days

Moon phase on October 30, 1959Waning Crescent

Friday 30 October 1959364,720 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, October 30, 1959, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.0% of its visible face lit, 28.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.0%Illumination at noon UTC
28.0 dMoon age
364,720 km226,627 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (16°)
32.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 30, 1959 is on Friday, October 16, 1959 at 15:59 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, October 31, 1959 at 22:41 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, October 24, 195920:22
New Moon (after)Saturday, October 31, 195922:41

The Moon around October 30

More about this date

Friday, October 30, 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.