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The Moon on Sunday, October 25, 1981: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 5.3% lit · ♎︎ Libra 05°

Moon age

27.3days

Moon phase on October 25, 1981Waning Crescent

Sunday 25 October 1981397,633 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 25, 1981, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 5.3% of its visible face lit, 27.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

5.3%Illumination at noon UTC
27.3 dMoon age
397,633 km247,078 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (6°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 25, 1981 is on Tuesday, October 13, 1981 at 12:50 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, October 27, 1981 at 20:14 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, October 20, 198103:41
New Moon (after)Tuesday, October 27, 198120:14

The Moon around October 25

More about this date

Sunday, October 25, 1981 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 28, 1981 to the new moon of October 27, 1981, a cycle of 29.67 days.