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The Moon on Sunday, October 5, 1986: Waxing Crescent, 4% lit

Waxing · 3.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 04°

Moon age

1.7days

Moon phase on October 5, 1986Waxing Crescent

Sunday 5 October 1986369,084 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 5, 1986, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 3.8% of its visible face lit, 1.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

3.8%Illumination at noon UTC
1.7 dMoon age
369,084 km229,338 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (4°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 5, 1986 is on Friday, October 17, 1986 at 19:22 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, October 3, 1986 at 18:55 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, October 3, 198618:55
First Quarter (after)Friday, October 10, 198613:28

The Moon around October 5

More about this date

Sunday, October 5, 1986 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 3, 1986 to the new moon of November 2, 1986, a cycle of 29.46 days.