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The Moon on Wednesday, November 20, 1940: Waning Gibbous, 73% lit

Waning · 72.9% lit · ♌︎ Leo 00°

Moon age

20.6days

Moon phase on November 20, 1940Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 20 November 1940384,206 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, November 20, 1940, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 72.9% of its visible face lit, 20.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

72.9%Illumination at noon UTC
20.6 dMoon age
384,206 km238,734 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (1°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 20, 1940 is on Friday, November 15, 1940 at 02:23 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, November 29, 1940 at 08:42 UTC, 9 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, November 15, 194002:23
Last Quarter (after)Friday, November 22, 194016:36

The Moon around November 20

More about this date

Wednesday, November 20, 1940 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 30, 1940 to the new moon of November 29, 1940, a cycle of 29.44 days.