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The Moon on Tuesday, November 5, 1991: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 1.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 01°

Moon age

28.6days

Moon phase on November 5, 1991Waning Crescent

Tuesday 5 November 1991387,015 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, November 5, 1991, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.2% of its visible face lit, 28.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.2%Illumination at noon UTC
28.6 dMoon age
387,015 km240,480 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (1°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 5, 1991 is on Wednesday, October 23, 1991 at 11:08 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, November 6, 1991 at 11:11 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, October 30, 199107:11
New Moon (after)Wednesday, November 6, 199111:11

The Moon around November 5

More about this date

Tuesday, November 5, 1991 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 7, 1991 to the new moon of November 6, 1991, a cycle of 29.56 days.