Skip to content
The Moon on Sunday, May 23, 1915: Waxing Gibbous, 64% lit

Waxing · 63.8% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 17°

Moon age

9.4days

Moon phase on May 23, 1915Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 23 May 1915377,692 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 23, 1915, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 63.8% of its visible face lit, 9.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

63.8%Illumination at noon UTC
9.4 dMoon age
377,692 km234,687 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (17°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 23, 1915 is on Friday, May 28, 1915 at 21:32 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, May 14, 1915 at 03:31 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, May 22, 191504:50
Full Moon (after)Friday, May 28, 191521:32

The Moon around May 23

More about this date

Sunday, May 23, 1915 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 14, 1915 to the new moon of June 12, 1915, a cycle of 29.64 days.