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The Moon on Sunday, October 23, 1960: Waxing Crescent, 12% lit

Waxing · 11.5% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 09°

Moon age

3.0days

Moon phase on October 23, 1960Waxing Crescent

Sunday 23 October 1960369,243 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 23, 1960, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 11.5% of its visible face lit, 3.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

11.5%Illumination at noon UTC
3.0 dMoon age
369,243 km229,437 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (9°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 23, 1960 is on Thursday, November 3, 1960 at 11:58 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, October 20, 1960 at 12:02 UTC, 3 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, October 20, 196012:02
First Quarter (after)Thursday, October 27, 196007:34

The Moon around October 23

More about this date

Sunday, October 23, 1960 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 20, 1960 to the new moon of November 18, 1960, a cycle of 29.49 days.