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The Moon on Friday, October 18, 1963: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 1.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 05°

Moon age

1.0days

Moon phase on October 18, 1963Waxing Crescent

Friday 18 October 1963405,386 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, October 18, 1963, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 1.0% of its visible face lit, 1.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

1.0%Illumination at noon UTC
1.0 dMoon age
405,386 km251,895 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (5°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 18, 1963 is on Friday, November 1, 1963 at 13:55 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, October 17, 1963 at 12:43 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, October 17, 196312:43
First Quarter (after)Friday, October 25, 196317:20

The Moon around October 18

More about this date

Friday, October 18, 1963 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 17, 1963 to the new moon of November 16, 1963, a cycle of 29.76 days.