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The Moon on Friday, October 24, 2014: Waxing Crescent, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 07°

Moon age

0.6days

Moon phase on October 24, 2014Waxing Crescent

Friday 24 October 2014389,456 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, October 24, 2014, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.4% of its visible face lit, 0.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.4%Illumination at noon UTC
0.6 dMoon age
389,456 km241,997 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (8°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 24, 2014 is on Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 22:23 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 21:57 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, October 23, 201421:57
First Quarter (after)Friday, October 31, 201402:48

The Moon around October 24

More about this date

Friday, October 24, 2014 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 23, 2014 to the new moon of November 22, 2014, a cycle of 29.61 days.