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The Moon on Tuesday, October 16, 2012: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 1.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 07°

Moon age

1.0days

Moon phase on October 16, 2012Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 16 October 2012360,909 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, October 16, 2012, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 1.5% of its visible face lit, 1.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

1.5%Illumination at noon UTC
1.0 dMoon age
360,909 km224,259 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (7°)
33.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 16, 2012 is on Monday, October 29, 2012 at 19:50 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, October 15, 2012 at 12:03 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, October 15, 201212:03
First Quarter (after)Monday, October 22, 201203:32

The Moon around October 16

More about this date

Tuesday, October 16, 2012 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 15, 2012 to the new moon of November 13, 2012, a cycle of 29.42 days.