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The Moon on Sunday, October 7, 2012: Waning Gibbous, 58% lit

Waning · 58.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 05°

Moon age

21.4days

Moon phase on October 7, 2012Waning Gibbous

Sunday 7 October 2012401,589 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 7, 2012, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 58.0% of its visible face lit, 21.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

58.0%Illumination at noon UTC
21.4 dMoon age
401,589 km249,536 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (6°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 7, 2012 is on Sunday, September 30, 2012 at 03:19 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, October 15, 2012 at 12:03 UTC, 8 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, September 30, 201203:19
Last Quarter (after)Monday, October 8, 201207:34

The Moon around October 7

More about this date

Sunday, October 7, 2012 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 16, 2012 to the new moon of October 15, 2012, a cycle of 29.41 days.