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The Moon on Sunday, May 27, 1906: Waxing Crescent, 15% lit

Waxing · 15.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 21°

Moon age

4.2days

Moon phase on May 27, 1906Waxing Crescent

Sunday 27 May 1906398,612 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 27, 1906, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 15.3% of its visible face lit, 4.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

15.3%Illumination at noon UTC
4.2 dMoon age
398,612 km247,686 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (21°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 27, 1906 is on Wednesday, June 6, 1906 at 21:12 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, May 23, 1906 at 08:01 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Wednesday, May 23, 190608:01
First Quarter (after)Thursday, May 31, 190606:23

The Moon around May 27

More about this date

Sunday, May 27, 1906 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 23, 1906 to the new moon of June 21, 1906, a cycle of 29.63 days.