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The Moon on Tuesday, October 4, 2011: First Quarter, 54% lit

Waxing · 54.0% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 15°

First Quarter at

03:15UTC

Moon phase on October 4, 2011First Quarter

Tuesday 4 October 2011384,389 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, October 4, 2011, the Moon was a First Quarter: 54.0% of its visible face lit, 7.0 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

54.0%Illumination at noon UTC
7.0 dMoon age
384,389 km238,848 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (15°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 4, 2011 is on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 02:06 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 11:09 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, September 27, 201111:09
First Quarter (this day)Tuesday, October 4, 201103:15
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, October 12, 201102:06

The Moon around October 4

More about this date

Tuesday, October 4, 2011 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 27, 2011 to the new moon of October 26, 2011, a cycle of 29.37 days.