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The Moon on Friday, October 28, 2072: Waning Gibbous, 98% lit

Waning · 97.7% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 22°

Moon age

16.8days

Moon phase on October 28, 2072Waning Gibbous

Friday 28 October 2072393,057 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, October 28, 2072, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 97.7% of its visible face lit, 16.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

97.7%Illumination at noon UTC
16.8 dMoon age
393,057 km244,234 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (23°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 28, 2072 is on Thursday, October 27, 2072 at 01:21 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, November 10, 2072 at 04:21 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, October 27, 207201:21
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, November 3, 207211:16

The Moon around October 28

More about this date

Friday, October 28, 2072 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 11, 2072 to the new moon of November 10, 2072, a cycle of 29.43 days.