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The Moon on Thursday, May 27, 1954: Waning Crescent, 29% lit

Waning · 28.9% lit · ♈︎ Aries 00°

Moon age

24.7days

Moon phase on May 27, 1954Waning Crescent

Thursday 27 May 1954367,442 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, May 27, 1954, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 28.9% of its visible face lit, 24.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

28.9%Illumination at noon UTC
24.7 dMoon age
367,442 km228,318 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (1°)
32.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 27, 1954 is on Monday, May 17, 1954 at 21:47 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, June 1, 1954 at 04:03 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, May 25, 195413:49
New Moon (after)Tuesday, June 1, 195404:03

The Moon around May 27

More about this date

Thursday, May 27, 1954 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 2, 1954 to the new moon of June 1, 1954, a cycle of 29.32 days.