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The Moon on Thursday, October 18, 2012: Waxing Crescent, 13% lit

Waxing · 12.7% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 07°

Moon age

3.0days

Moon phase on October 18, 2012Waxing Crescent

Thursday 18 October 2012362,345 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, October 18, 2012, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 12.7% of its visible face lit, 3.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

12.7%Illumination at noon UTC
3.0 dMoon age
362,345 km225,151 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (7°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 18, 2012 is on Monday, October 29, 2012 at 19:50 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, October 15, 2012 at 12:03 UTC, 3 days earlier.

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

The Moon around October 18

More about this date

Thursday, October 18, 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.