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The Moon on Wednesday, October 15, 2014: Last Quarter, 53% lit

Waning · 53.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 18°

Last Quarter at

19:12UTC

Moon phase on October 15, 2014Last Quarter

Wednesday 15 October 2014400,186 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, October 15, 2014, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 53.0% of its visible face lit, 21.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

53.0%Illumination at noon UTC
21.2 dMoon age
400,186 km248,664 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (19°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 15, 2014 is on Wednesday, October 8, 2014 at 10:51 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 21:57 UTC, 8 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, October 8, 201410:51
Last Quarter (this day)Wednesday, October 15, 201419:12
New Moon (after)Thursday, October 23, 201421:57

The Moon around October 15

More about this date

Wednesday, October 15, 2014 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 24, 2014 to the new moon of October 23, 2014, a cycle of 29.65 days.