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The Moon on Sunday, May 1, 1927: New Moon, 0% lit

Waning · 0.1% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 09°

New Moon at

12:40UTC

Moon phase on May 1, 1927New Moon

Sunday 1 May 1927360,780 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 1, 1927, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.1% of its visible face lit, 29.3 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.1%Illumination at noon UTC
29.3 dMoon age
360,780 km224,178 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (10°)
33.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 1, 1927 is on Sunday, April 17, 1927 at 03:35 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, May 1, 1927 at 12:40 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, April 24, 192722:21
New Moon (this day)Sunday, May 1, 192712:40
First Quarter (after)Sunday, May 8, 192715:27

The Moon around May 1

More about this date

Sunday, May 1, 1927 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 2, 1927 to the new moon of May 1, 1927, a cycle of 29.34 days.