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The Moon on Sunday, October 23, 2016: Waning Crescent, 43% lit

Waning · 42.7% lit · ♌︎ Leo 09°

Moon age

22.5days

Moon phase on October 23, 2016Waning Crescent

Sunday 23 October 2016384,265 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 23, 2016, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 42.7% of its visible face lit, 22.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

42.7%Illumination at noon UTC
22.5 dMoon age
384,265 km238,771 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (9°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 23, 2016 is on Sunday, October 16, 2016 at 04:23 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 17:38 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, October 22, 201619:14
New Moon (after)Sunday, October 30, 201617:38

The Moon around October 23

More about this date

Sunday, October 23, 2016 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 1, 2016 to the new moon of October 30, 2016, a cycle of 29.73 days.