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The Moon on Friday, October 19, 1990: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 0.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 05°

Moon age

0.8days

Moon phase on October 19, 1990Waxing Crescent

Friday 19 October 1990401,687 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, October 19, 1990, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.9% of its visible face lit, 0.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.9%Illumination at noon UTC
0.8 dMoon age
401,687 km249,597 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (5°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 19, 1990 is on Friday, November 2, 1990 at 21:48 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, October 18, 1990 at 15:37 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, October 18, 199015:37
First Quarter (after)Friday, October 26, 199020:27

The Moon around October 19

More about this date

Friday, October 19, 1990 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 18, 1990 to the new moon of November 17, 1990, a cycle of 29.73 days.