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The Moon on Tuesday, October 18, 2011: Waning Gibbous, 67% lit

Waning · 66.7% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 05°

Moon age

21.0days

Moon phase on October 18, 2011Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 18 October 2011393,025 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, October 18, 2011, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 66.7% of its visible face lit, 21.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

66.7%Illumination at noon UTC
21.0 dMoon age
393,025 km244,214 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (5°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 18, 2011 is on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 02:06 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 19:56 UTC, 8 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, October 12, 201102:06
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, October 20, 201103:31

The Moon around October 18

More about this date

Tuesday, October 18, 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.