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The Moon on Saturday, November 5, 1983: Waxing Crescent, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 19°

Moon age

0.6days

Moon phase on November 5, 1983Waxing Crescent

Saturday 5 November 1983377,382 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, November 5, 1983, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.4% of its visible face lit, 0.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.4%Illumination at noon UTC
0.6 dMoon age
377,382 km234,494 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (20°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 5, 1983 is on Friday, October 21, 1983 at 21:53 UTC, 15 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, November 4, 1983 at 22:21 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, November 4, 198322:21
First Quarter (after)Saturday, November 12, 198315:49

The Moon around November 5

More about this date

Saturday, November 5, 1983 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 4, 1983 to the new moon of December 4, 1983, a cycle of 29.59 days.