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The Moon on Friday, October 6, 2006: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 99.4% lit · ♈︎ Aries 04°

Moon age

14.0days

Moon phase on October 6, 2006Waxing Gibbous

Friday 6 October 2006357,410 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, October 6, 2006, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 99.4% of its visible face lit, 14.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

99.4%Illumination at noon UTC
14.0 dMoon age
357,410 km222,084 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (4°)
33.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 6, 2006 is on Saturday, October 7, 2006 at 03:13 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 22, 2006 at 11:45 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, September 30, 200611:04
Full Moon (after)Saturday, October 7, 200603:13

The Moon around October 6

More about this date

Friday, October 6, 2006 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 22, 2006 to the new moon of October 22, 2006, a cycle of 29.73 days.