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The Moon on Thursday, October 27, 1983: Waning Gibbous, 68% lit

Waning · 68.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 12°

Moon age

21.0days

Moon phase on October 27, 1983Waning Gibbous

Thursday 27 October 1983374,527 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, October 27, 1983, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 68.3% of its visible face lit, 21.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

68.3%Illumination at noon UTC
21.0 dMoon age
374,527 km232,720 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (12°)
31.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 27, 1983 is on Friday, October 21, 1983 at 21:53 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, November 4, 1983 at 22:21 UTC, 8 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, October 21, 198321:53
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, October 29, 198303:37

The Moon around October 27

More about this date

Thursday, October 27, 1983 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 6, 1983 to the new moon of November 4, 1983, a cycle of 29.46 days.