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The Moon on Saturday, November 5, 1955: Waning Gibbous, 66% lit

Waning · 65.9% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 23°

Moon age

20.7days

Moon phase on November 5, 1955Waning Gibbous

Saturday 5 November 1955369,153 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, November 5, 1955, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 65.9% of its visible face lit, 20.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

65.9%Illumination at noon UTC
20.7 dMoon age
369,153 km229,381 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (24°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 5, 1955 is on Monday, October 31, 1955 at 06:04 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, November 14, 1955 at 12:02 UTC, 9 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, October 31, 195506:04
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, November 6, 195521:56

The Moon around November 5

More about this date

Saturday, November 5, 1955 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 15, 1955 to the new moon of November 14, 1955, a cycle of 29.69 days.