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The Moon on Tuesday, October 30, 1962: Waxing Crescent, 4% lit

Waxing · 3.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 28°

Moon age

2.0days

Moon phase on October 30, 1962Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 30 October 1962400,158 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, October 30, 1962, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 3.7% of its visible face lit, 2.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

3.7%Illumination at noon UTC
2.0 dMoon age
400,158 km248,647 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (28°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 30, 1962 is on Sunday, November 11, 1962 at 22:03 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, October 28, 1962 at 13:05 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, October 28, 196213:05
First Quarter (after)Monday, November 5, 196207:15

The Moon around October 30

More about this date

Tuesday, October 30, 1962 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 28, 1962 to the new moon of November 27, 1962, a cycle of 29.73 days.