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The Moon on Wednesday, October 26, 2022: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 1.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 16°

Moon age

1.0days

Moon phase on October 26, 2022Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 26 October 2022372,760 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, October 26, 2022, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 1.4% of its visible face lit, 1.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

1.4%Illumination at noon UTC
1.0 dMoon age
372,760 km231,622 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (17°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 26, 2022 is on Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at 11:02 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at 10:49 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, October 25, 202210:49
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, November 1, 202206:37

The Moon around October 26

More about this date

Wednesday, October 26, 2022 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 25, 2022 to the new moon of November 23, 2022, a cycle of 29.51 days.