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The Moon on Sunday, October 5, 2081: Waxing Crescent, 11% lit

Waxing · 11.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 21°

Moon age

2.8days

Moon phase on October 5, 2081Waxing Crescent

Sunday 5 October 2081368,820 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 5, 2081, the Moon will be a Waxing Crescent: 11.0% of its visible face lit, 2.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

11.0%Illumination at noon UTC
2.8 dMoon age
368,820 km229,174 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (21°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 5, 2081 is on Friday, October 17, 2081 at 20:50 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, October 2, 2081 at 17:23 UTC, 3 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, October 2, 208117:23
First Quarter (after)Thursday, October 9, 208115:58

The Moon around October 5

More about this date

Sunday, October 5, 2081 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 2, 2081 to the new moon of November 1, 2081, a cycle of 29.40 days.