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The Moon on Sunday, May 22, 1921: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.5% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 08°

Moon age

14.6days

Moon phase on May 22, 1921Waning Gibbous

Sunday 22 May 1921393,930 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 22, 1921, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.5% of its visible face lit, 14.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.5%Illumination at noon UTC
14.6 dMoon age
393,930 km244,776 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (9°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 22, 1921 is on Saturday, May 21, 1921 at 20:15 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, May 7, 1921 at 21:01 UTC, 15 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, May 21, 192120:15
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, May 29, 192121:44

The Moon around May 22

More about this date

Sunday, May 22, 1921 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 7, 1921 to the new moon of June 6, 1921, a cycle of 29.38 days.