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The Moon on Monday, June 22, 1953: Waxing Gibbous, 77% lit

Waxing · 77.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 04°

Moon age

10.9days

Moon phase on June 22, 1953Waxing Gibbous

Monday 22 June 1953396,235 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, June 22, 1953, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 77.5% of its visible face lit, 10.9 days after the new moon and growing each night.

77.5%Illumination at noon UTC
10.9 dMoon age
396,235 km246,209 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (4°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 22, 1953 is on Saturday, June 27, 1953 at 03:29 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, June 11, 1953 at 14:55 UTC, 11 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Friday, June 19, 195312:01
Full Moon (after)Saturday, June 27, 195303:29

The Moon around June 22

More about this date

Monday, June 22, 1953 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 11, 1953 to the new moon of July 11, 1953, a cycle of 29.48 days.