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The Moon on Sunday, October 27, 2002: Waning Gibbous, 68% lit

Waning · 67.9% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 13°

Moon age

21.0days

Moon phase on October 27, 2002Waning Gibbous

Sunday 27 October 2002389,268 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 27, 2002, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 67.9% of its visible face lit, 21.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

67.9%Illumination at noon UTC
21.0 dMoon age
389,268 km241,880 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (13°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 27, 2002 is on Monday, October 21, 2002 at 07:20 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, November 4, 2002 at 20:34 UTC, 8 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, October 21, 200207:20
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, October 29, 200205:28

The Moon around October 27

More about this date

Sunday, October 27, 2002 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 6, 2002 to the new moon of November 4, 2002, a cycle of 29.39 days.