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The Moon on Thursday, May 6, 1909: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 26°

Moon age

16.3days

Moon phase on May 6, 1909Waning Gibbous

Thursday 6 May 1909394,155 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, May 6, 1909, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.0% of its visible face lit, 16.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.0%Illumination at noon UTC
16.3 dMoon age
394,155 km244,916 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (27°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 6, 1909 is on Wednesday, May 5, 1909 at 12:08 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, May 19, 1909 at 13:42 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, May 5, 190912:08
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, May 12, 190921:45

The Moon around May 6

More about this date

Thursday, May 6, 1909 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 20, 1909 to the new moon of May 19, 1909, a cycle of 29.37 days.