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The Moon on Friday, October 1, 2010: Last Quarter, 46% lit

Waning · 46.4% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 12°

Last Quarter at

03:52UTC

Moon phase on October 1, 2010Last Quarter

Friday 1 October 2010376,236 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, October 1, 2010, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 46.4% of its visible face lit, 23.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

46.4%Illumination at noon UTC
23.1 dMoon age
376,236 km233,782 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (12°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 1, 2010 is on Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 09:17 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 18:44 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, September 23, 201009:17
Last Quarter (this day)Friday, October 1, 201003:52
New Moon (after)Thursday, October 7, 201018:44

The Moon around October 1

More about this date

Friday, October 1, 2010 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 8, 2010 to the new moon of October 7, 2010, a cycle of 29.34 days.