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The Moon on Sunday, May 23, 1937: Waxing Gibbous, 97% lit

Waxing · 97.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 12°

Moon age

12.9days

Moon phase on May 23, 1937Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 23 May 1937405,890 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 23, 1937, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 97.0% of its visible face lit, 12.9 days after the new moon and growing each night.

97.0%Illumination at noon UTC
12.9 dMoon age
405,890 km252,208 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (12°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 23, 1937 is on Tuesday, May 25, 1937 at 07:38 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, May 10, 1937 at 13:18 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, May 17, 193706:49
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, May 25, 193707:38

The Moon around May 23

More about this date

Sunday, May 23, 1937 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 10, 1937 to the new moon of June 8, 1937, a cycle of 29.31 days.