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The Moon on Friday, October 21, 1988: Waxing Gibbous, 82% lit

Waxing · 81.5% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 07°

Moon age

10.6days

Moon phase on October 21, 1988Waxing Gibbous

Friday 21 October 1988364,123 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, October 21, 1988, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 81.5% of its visible face lit, 10.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

81.5%Illumination at noon UTC
10.6 dMoon age
364,123 km226,255 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (7°)
32.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 21, 1988 is on Tuesday, October 25, 1988 at 04:36 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, October 10, 1988 at 21:49 UTC, 11 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Tuesday, October 18, 198813:01
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, October 25, 198804:36

The Moon around October 21

More about this date

Friday, October 21, 1988 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 10, 1988 to the new moon of November 9, 1988, a cycle of 29.69 days.