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The Moon on Friday, October 6, 2023: Last Quarter, 51% lit

Waning · 50.9% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 12°

Last Quarter at

13:48UTC

Moon phase on October 6, 2023Last Quarter

Friday 6 October 2023397,690 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, October 6, 2023, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 50.9% of its visible face lit, 21.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

50.9%Illumination at noon UTC
21.4 dMoon age
397,690 km247,113 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (12°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 6, 2023 is on Friday, September 29, 2023 at 09:58 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, October 14, 2023 at 17:55 UTC, 8 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, September 29, 202309:58
Last Quarter (this day)Friday, October 6, 202313:48
New Moon (after)Saturday, October 14, 202317:55

The Moon around October 6

More about this date

Friday, October 6, 2023 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 15, 2023 to the new moon of October 14, 2023, a cycle of 29.68 days.