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The Moon on Sunday, October 29, 2006: First Quarter, 46% lit

Waxing · 45.8% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 00°

First Quarter at

21:26UTC

Moon phase on October 29, 2006First Quarter

Sunday 29 October 2006378,136 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 29, 2006, the Moon was a First Quarter: 45.8% of its visible face lit, 7.3 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

45.8%Illumination at noon UTC
7.3 dMoon age
378,136 km234,963 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (1°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 29, 2006 is on Sunday, November 5, 2006 at 12:58 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, October 22, 2006 at 05:14 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, October 22, 200605:14
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, October 29, 200621:26
Full Moon (after)Sunday, November 5, 200612:58

The Moon around October 29

More about this date

Sunday, October 29, 2006 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 22, 2006 to the new moon of November 20, 2006, a cycle of 29.71 days.