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The Moon on Sunday, May 7, 1944: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 99.1% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 07°

Moon age

14.6days

Moon phase on May 7, 1944Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 7 May 1944393,173 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 7, 1944, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 99.1% of its visible face lit, 14.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

99.1%Illumination at noon UTC
14.6 dMoon age
393,173 km244,306 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (7°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 7, 1944 is on Monday, May 8, 1944 at 07:28 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, April 22, 1944 at 20:44 UTC, 15 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, April 30, 194406:07
Full Moon (after)Monday, May 8, 194407:28

The Moon around May 7

More about this date

Sunday, May 7, 1944 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 22, 1944 to the new moon of May 22, 1944, a cycle of 29.40 days.