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The Moon on Friday, May 1, 1931: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 99.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 00°

Moon age

13.5days

Moon phase on May 1, 1931Waxing Gibbous

Friday 1 May 1931363,882 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, May 1, 1931, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 99.3% of its visible face lit, 13.5 days after the new moon and growing each night.

99.3%Illumination at noon UTC
13.5 dMoon age
363,882 km226,106 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (0°)
32.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 1, 1931 is on Saturday, May 2, 1931 at 05:14 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, April 18, 1931 at 01:00 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, April 25, 193113:40
Full Moon (after)Saturday, May 2, 193105:14

The Moon around May 1

More about this date

Friday, May 1, 1931 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 18, 1931 to the new moon of May 17, 1931, a cycle of 29.60 days.