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The Moon on Tuesday, October 12, 1999: Waxing Crescent, 9% lit

Waxing · 8.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 22°

Moon age

3.0days

Moon phase on October 12, 1999Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 12 October 1999403,047 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, October 12, 1999, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 8.8% of its visible face lit, 3.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

8.8%Illumination at noon UTC
3.0 dMoon age
403,047 km250,442 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (23°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 12, 1999 is on Sunday, October 24, 1999 at 21:02 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, October 9, 1999 at 11:35 UTC, 3 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, October 9, 199911:35
First Quarter (after)Sunday, October 17, 199915:00

The Moon around October 12

More about this date

Tuesday, October 12, 1999 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 9, 1999 to the new moon of November 8, 1999, a cycle of 29.68 days.