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The Moon on Saturday, May 10, 1952: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 28°

Moon age

16.2days

Moon phase on May 10, 1952Waning Gibbous

Saturday 10 May 1952372,542 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, May 10, 1952, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.3% of its visible face lit, 16.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.3%Illumination at noon UTC
16.2 dMoon age
372,542 km231,487 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (28°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 10, 1952 is on Friday, May 9, 1952 at 20:16 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, May 23, 1952 at 19:28 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, May 9, 195220:16
Last Quarter (after)Friday, May 16, 195214:39

The Moon around May 10

More about this date

Saturday, May 10, 1952 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 24, 1952 to the new moon of May 23, 1952, a cycle of 29.50 days.