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The Moon on Tuesday, May 22, 1951: Waning Gibbous, 97% lit

Waning · 97.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 18°

Moon age

16.4days

Moon phase on May 22, 1951Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 22 May 1951358,497 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, May 22, 1951, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 97.4% of its visible face lit, 16.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

97.4%Illumination at noon UTC
16.4 dMoon age
358,497 km222,760 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (19°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 22, 1951 is on Monday, May 21, 1951 at 05:45 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, June 4, 1951 at 16:41 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, May 21, 195105:45
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, May 27, 195120:17

The Moon around May 22

More about this date

Tuesday, May 22, 1951 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 6, 1951 to the new moon of June 4, 1951, a cycle of 29.63 days.