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The Moon on Sunday, October 18, 1998: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 3.4% lit · ♎︎ Libra 03°

Moon age

27.8days

Moon phase on October 18, 1998Waning Crescent

Sunday 18 October 1998404,249 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 18, 1998, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.4% of its visible face lit, 27.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.4%Illumination at noon UTC
27.8 dMoon age
404,249 km251,189 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (4°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 18, 1998 is on Monday, October 5, 1998 at 20:12 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, October 20, 1998 at 10:10 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, October 12, 199811:11
New Moon (after)Tuesday, October 20, 199810:10

The Moon around October 18

More about this date

Sunday, October 18, 1998 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 20, 1998 to the new moon of October 20, 1998, a cycle of 29.71 days.