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The Moon on Thursday, October 22, 2009: Waxing Crescent, 19% lit

Waxing · 18.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 20°

Moon age

4.3days

Moon phase on October 22, 2009Waxing Crescent

Thursday 22 October 2009396,886 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, October 22, 2009, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 18.8% of its visible face lit, 4.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

18.8%Illumination at noon UTC
4.3 dMoon age
396,886 km246,613 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (21°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 22, 2009 is on Monday, November 2, 2009 at 19:14 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 05:33 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, October 18, 200905:33
First Quarter (after)Monday, October 26, 200900:42

The Moon around October 22

More about this date

Thursday, October 22, 2009 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 18, 2009 to the new moon of November 16, 2009, a cycle of 29.57 days.