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The Moon on Tuesday, October 28, 1986: Waning Crescent, 26% lit

Waning · 25.7% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 04°

Moon age

24.7days

Moon phase on October 28, 1986Waning Crescent

Tuesday 28 October 1986388,732 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, October 28, 1986, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 25.7% of its visible face lit, 24.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

25.7%Illumination at noon UTC
24.7 dMoon age
388,732 km241,547 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (4°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 28, 1986 is on Friday, October 17, 1986 at 19:22 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, November 2, 1986 at 06:02 UTC, 5 days later.

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

The Moon around October 28

More about this date

Tuesday, October 28, 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.