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The Moon on Tuesday, October 25, 2016: Waning Crescent, 24% lit

Waning · 23.6% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 04°

Moon age

24.5days

Moon phase on October 25, 2016Waning Crescent

Tuesday 25 October 2016393,759 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, October 25, 2016, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 23.6% of its visible face lit, 24.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

23.6%Illumination at noon UTC
24.5 dMoon age
393,759 km244,670 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (5°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 25, 2016 is on Sunday, October 16, 2016 at 04:23 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 17:38 UTC, 5 days later.

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

The Moon around October 25

More about this date

Tuesday, October 25, 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.