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The Moon on Sunday, October 23, 2022: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 4.5% lit · ♎︎ Libra 05°

Moon age

27.6days

Moon phase on October 23, 2022Waning Crescent

Sunday 23 October 2022385,003 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 23, 2022, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.5% of its visible face lit, 27.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.5%Illumination at noon UTC
27.6 dMoon age
385,003 km239,230 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (6°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 23, 2022 is on Sunday, October 9, 2022 at 20:55 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at 10:49 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, October 17, 202217:15
New Moon (after)Tuesday, October 25, 202210:49

The Moon around October 23

More about this date

Sunday, October 23, 2022 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 25, 2022 to the new moon of October 25, 2022, a cycle of 29.54 days.