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The Moon on Sunday, May 27, 1951: Last Quarter, 54% lit

Waning · 53.9% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 01°

Last Quarter at

20:17UTC

Moon phase on May 27, 1951Last Quarter

Sunday 27 May 1951377,636 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 27, 1951, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 53.9% of its visible face lit, 21.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

53.9%Illumination at noon UTC
21.4 dMoon age
377,636 km234,652 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (1°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 27, 1951 is on Monday, May 21, 1951 at 05:45 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, June 4, 1951 at 16:41 UTC, 8 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, May 21, 195105:45
Last Quarter (this day)Sunday, May 27, 195120:17
New Moon (after)Monday, June 4, 195116:41

The Moon around May 27

More about this date

Sunday, May 27, 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.