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The Moon on Sunday, June 5, 1921: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.9% lit · ♊︎ Gemini 03°

Moon age

28.6days

Moon phase on June 5, 1921Waning Crescent

Sunday 5 June 1921368,708 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, June 5, 1921, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.9% of its visible face lit, 28.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.9%Illumination at noon UTC
28.6 dMoon age
368,708 km229,104 mi from Earth
♊︎ GeminiMoon sign (4°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 5, 1921 is on Saturday, May 21, 1921 at 20:15 UTC, 15 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, June 6, 1921 at 06:14 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, May 29, 192121:44
New Moon (after)Monday, June 6, 192106:14

The Moon around June 5

More about this date

Sunday, June 5, 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.