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The Moon on Thursday, October 5, 2073: Waxing Crescent, 23% lit

Waxing · 23.0% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 09°

Moon age

4.1days

Moon phase on October 5, 2073Waxing Crescent

Thursday 5 October 2073368,057 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, October 5, 2073, the Moon will be a Waxing Crescent: 23.0% of its visible face lit, 4.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

23.0%Illumination at noon UTC
4.1 dMoon age
368,057 km228,700 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (10°)
32.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 5, 2073 is on Monday, October 16, 2073 at 01:54 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, October 1, 2073 at 10:21 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, October 1, 207310:21
First Quarter (after)Sunday, October 8, 207301:56

The Moon around October 5

More about this date

Thursday, October 5, 2073 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 1, 2073 to the new moon of October 30, 2073, a cycle of 29.37 days.