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The Moon on Friday, June 6, 1952: Waxing Gibbous, 96% lit

Waxing · 95.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 22°

Moon age

13.7days

Moon phase on June 6, 1952Waxing Gibbous

Friday 6 June 1952372,662 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, June 6, 1952, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 95.9% of its visible face lit, 13.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

95.9%Illumination at noon UTC
13.7 dMoon age
372,662 km231,562 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (23°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 6, 1952 is on Sunday, June 8, 1952 at 05:07 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, May 23, 1952 at 19:28 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, May 31, 195221:47
Full Moon (after)Sunday, June 8, 195205:07

The Moon around June 6

More about this date

Friday, June 6, 1952 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 23, 1952 to the new moon of June 22, 1952, a cycle of 29.55 days.