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The Moon on Tuesday, May 30, 1944: First Quarter, 55% lit

Waxing · 54.8% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 14°

First Quarter at

00:07UTC

Moon phase on May 30, 1944First Quarter

Tuesday 30 May 1944404,091 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, May 30, 1944, the Moon was a First Quarter: 54.8% of its visible face lit, 8.2 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

54.8%Illumination at noon UTC
8.2 dMoon age
404,091 km251,090 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (14°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 30, 1944 is on Tuesday, June 6, 1944 at 18:58 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, May 22, 1944 at 06:13 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, May 22, 194406:13
First Quarter (this day)Tuesday, May 30, 194400:07
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, June 6, 194418:58

The Moon around May 30

More about this date

Tuesday, May 30, 1944 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 22, 1944 to the new moon of June 20, 1944, a cycle of 29.45 days.