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The Moon on Friday, November 5, 2010: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 03°

Moon age

28.7days

Moon phase on November 5, 2010Waning Crescent

Friday 5 November 2010366,337 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, November 5, 2010, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.8% of its visible face lit, 28.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.8%Illumination at noon UTC
28.7 dMoon age
366,337 km227,631 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (3°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 5, 2010 is on Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 01:37 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, November 6, 2010 at 04:52 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, October 30, 201012:46
New Moon (after)Saturday, November 6, 201004:52

The Moon around November 5

More about this date

Friday, November 5, 2010 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 7, 2010 to the new moon of November 6, 2010, a cycle of 29.42 days.