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The Moon on Friday, October 3, 1975: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 4.3% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 16°

Moon age

27.7days

Moon phase on October 3, 1975Waning Crescent

Friday 3 October 1975358,685 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, October 3, 1975, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.3% of its visible face lit, 27.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.3%Illumination at noon UTC
27.7 dMoon age
358,685 km222,876 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (16°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 3, 1975 is on Saturday, September 20, 1975 at 11:51 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, October 5, 1975 at 03:23 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, September 28, 197511:46
New Moon (after)Sunday, October 5, 197503:23

The Moon around October 3

More about this date

Friday, October 3, 1975 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 5, 1975 to the new moon of October 5, 1975, a cycle of 29.34 days.