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The Moon on Tuesday, October 13, 2015: New Moon, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.3% lit · ♎︎ Libra 25°

New Moon at

00:06UTC

Moon phase on October 13, 2015New Moon

Tuesday 13 October 2015405,128 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, October 13, 2015, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.3% of its visible face lit, 0.5 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.3%Illumination at noon UTC
0.5 dMoon age
405,128 km251,735 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (25°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 13, 2015 is on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 12:05 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 00:06 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, October 4, 201521:06
New Moon (this day)Tuesday, October 13, 201500:06
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, October 20, 201520:31

The Moon around October 13

More about this date

Tuesday, October 13, 2015 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 13, 2015 to the new moon of November 11, 2015, a cycle of 29.74 days.