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The Moon on Wednesday, May 18, 1932: Waxing Gibbous, 96% lit

Waxing · 95.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 02°

Moon age

12.7days

Moon phase on May 18, 1932Waxing Gibbous

Wednesday 18 May 1932359,022 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, May 18, 1932, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 95.5% of its visible face lit, 12.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

95.5%Illumination at noon UTC
12.7 dMoon age
359,022 km223,086 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (3°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 18, 1932 is on Friday, May 20, 1932 at 05:09 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, May 5, 1932 at 18:12 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Friday, May 13, 193214:02
Full Moon (after)Friday, May 20, 193205:09

The Moon around May 18

More about this date

Wednesday, May 18, 1932 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 5, 1932 to the new moon of June 4, 1932, a cycle of 29.63 days.