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The Moon on Tuesday, February 23, 1954: Waning Gibbous, 73% lit

Waning · 72.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 07°

Moon age

19.8days

Moon phase on February 23, 1954Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 23 February 1954404,635 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, February 23, 1954, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 72.9% of its visible face lit, 19.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

72.9%Illumination at noon UTC
19.8 dMoon age
404,635 km251,429 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (7°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to February 23, 1954 is on Wednesday, February 17, 1954 at 19:18 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, March 5, 1954 at 03:11 UTC, 10 days later.

The Moon around February 23

More about this date

Tuesday, February 23, 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.