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The Moon on Sunday, October 26, 1986: Waning Crescent, 45% lit

Waning · 44.7% lit · ♌︎ Leo 09°

Moon age

22.7days

Moon phase on October 26, 1986Waning Crescent

Sunday 26 October 1986398,521 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 26, 1986, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 44.7% of its visible face lit, 22.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

44.7%Illumination at noon UTC
22.7 dMoon age
398,521 km247,629 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (9°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 26, 1986 is on Friday, October 17, 1986 at 19:22 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, November 2, 1986 at 06:02 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, October 25, 198622:26
New Moon (after)Sunday, November 2, 198606:02

The Moon around October 26

More about this date

Sunday, October 26, 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.