Skip to content
The Moon on Sunday, October 21, 1962: Waning Crescent, 39% lit

Waning · 38.9% lit · ♌︎ Leo 10°

Moon age

22.7days

Moon phase on October 21, 1962Waning Crescent

Sunday 21 October 1962396,255 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 21, 1962, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 38.9% of its visible face lit, 22.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

38.9%Illumination at noon UTC
22.7 dMoon age
396,255 km246,221 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (11°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 21, 1962 is on Saturday, October 13, 1962 at 12:33 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, October 28, 1962 at 13:05 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, October 20, 196208:47
New Moon (after)Sunday, October 28, 196213:05

The Moon around October 21

More about this date

Sunday, October 21, 1962 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 28, 1962 to the new moon of October 28, 1962, a cycle of 29.73 days.