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The Moon on Sunday, February 21, 1954: Waning Gibbous, 88% lit

Waning · 87.7% lit · ♎︎ Libra 13°

Moon age

17.8days

Moon phase on February 21, 1954Waning Gibbous

Sunday 21 February 1954405,139 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, February 21, 1954, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 87.7% of its visible face lit, 17.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

87.7%Illumination at noon UTC
17.8 dMoon age
405,139 km251,741 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (13°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to February 21, 1954 is on Wednesday, February 17, 1954 at 19:18 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, March 5, 1954 at 03:11 UTC, 12 days later.

The Moon around February 21

More about this date

Sunday, February 21, 1954 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 3, 1954 to the new moon of March 5, 1954, a cycle of 29.47 days.