Skip to content
The Moon on Thursday, October 21, 2055: Waxing Crescent, 2% lit

Waxing · 1.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 13°

Moon age

1.0days

Moon phase on October 21, 2055Waxing Crescent

Thursday 21 October 2055359,477 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, October 21, 2055, the Moon will be a Waxing Crescent: 1.9% of its visible face lit, 1.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

1.9%Illumination at noon UTC
1.0 dMoon age
359,477 km223,369 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (13°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 21, 2055 is on Thursday, November 4, 2055 at 12:12 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, October 20, 2055 at 10:49 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Wednesday, October 20, 205510:49
First Quarter (after)Wednesday, October 27, 205507:53

The Moon around October 21

More about this date

Thursday, October 21, 2055 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 20, 2055 to the new moon of November 18, 2055, a cycle of 29.41 days.