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The Moon on Wednesday, November 27, 1940: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 5.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 09°

Moon age

27.6days

Moon phase on November 27, 1940Waning Crescent

Wednesday 27 November 1940361,957 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, November 27, 1940, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 5.0% of its visible face lit, 27.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

5.0%Illumination at noon UTC
27.6 dMoon age
361,957 km224,910 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (9°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 27, 1940 is on Friday, November 15, 1940 at 02:23 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, November 29, 1940 at 08:42 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, November 22, 194016:36
New Moon (after)Friday, November 29, 194008:42

The Moon around November 27

More about this date

Wednesday, November 27, 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.