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The Moon on Tuesday, October 18, 1960: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 4.7% lit · ♎︎ Libra 00°

Moon age

27.5days

Moon phase on October 18, 1960Waning Crescent

Tuesday 18 October 1960385,705 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, October 18, 1960, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.7% of its visible face lit, 27.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.7%Illumination at noon UTC
27.5 dMoon age
385,705 km239,666 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (0°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 18, 1960 is on Tuesday, October 4, 1960 at 22:16 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, October 20, 1960 at 12:02 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, October 12, 196017:25
New Moon (after)Thursday, October 20, 196012:02

The Moon around October 18

More about this date

Tuesday, October 18, 1960 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 20, 1960 to the new moon of October 20, 1960, a cycle of 29.53 days.