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The Moon on Wednesday, October 1, 1986: Waning Crescent, 6% lit

Waning · 6.3% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 09°

Moon age

27.2days

Moon phase on October 1, 1986Waning Crescent

Wednesday 1 October 1986384,515 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, October 1, 1986, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 6.3% of its visible face lit, 27.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

6.3%Illumination at noon UTC
27.2 dMoon age
384,515 km238,926 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (9°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 1, 1986 is on Thursday, September 18, 1986 at 05:34 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, October 3, 1986 at 18:55 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, September 26, 198603:18
New Moon (after)Friday, October 3, 198618:55

The Moon around October 1

More about this date

Wednesday, October 1, 1986 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 4, 1986 to the new moon of October 3, 1986, a cycle of 29.49 days.