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The Moon on Saturday, October 1, 1983: Waning Crescent, 32% lit

Waning · 31.6% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 29°

Moon age

24.4days

Moon phase on October 1, 1983Waning Crescent

Saturday 1 October 1983368,013 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, October 1, 1983, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 31.6% of its visible face lit, 24.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

31.6%Illumination at noon UTC
24.4 dMoon age
368,013 km228,673 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (29°)
32.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 1, 1983 is on Thursday, September 22, 1983 at 06:36 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, October 6, 1983 at 11:16 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, September 29, 198320:05
New Moon (after)Thursday, October 6, 198311:16

The Moon around October 1

More about this date

Saturday, October 1, 1983 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 7, 1983 to the new moon of October 6, 1983, a cycle of 29.36 days.