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The Moon on Thursday, May 27, 1915: Waxing Gibbous, 97% lit

Waxing · 96.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 15°

Moon age

13.4days

Moon phase on May 27, 1915Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 27 May 1915358,365 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, May 27, 1915, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 96.8% of its visible face lit, 13.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

96.8%Illumination at noon UTC
13.4 dMoon age
358,365 km222,678 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (15°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 27, 1915 is on Friday, May 28, 1915 at 21:32 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, May 14, 1915 at 03:31 UTC, 13 days earlier.

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

The Moon around May 27

More about this date

Thursday, May 27, 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.