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The Moon on Sunday, October 5, 1975: New Moon, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.3% lit · ♎︎ Libra 16°

New Moon at

03:23UTC

Moon phase on October 5, 1975New Moon

Sunday 5 October 1975358,196 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 5, 1975, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.3% of its visible face lit, 29.7 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.3%Illumination at noon UTC
29.7 dMoon age
358,196 km222,573 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (17°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 5, 1975 is on Monday, October 20, 1975 at 05:06 UTC, 15 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, October 5, 1975 at 03:23 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, September 28, 197511:46
New Moon (this day)Sunday, October 5, 197503:23
First Quarter (after)Sunday, October 12, 197501:15

The Moon around October 5

More about this date

Sunday, October 5, 1975 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 5, 1975 to the new moon of November 3, 1975, a cycle of 29.40 days.