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The Moon on Sunday, May 30, 1954: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 4.2% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 15°

Moon age

27.7days

Moon phase on May 30, 1954Waning Crescent

Sunday 30 May 1954360,865 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 30, 1954, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.2% of its visible face lit, 27.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.2%Illumination at noon UTC
27.7 dMoon age
360,865 km224,231 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (15°)
33.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 30, 1954 is on Monday, May 17, 1954 at 21:47 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, June 1, 1954 at 04:03 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around May 30

More about this date

Sunday, May 30, 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.