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The Moon on Friday, May 25, 1956: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 13°

Moon age

15.0days

Moon phase on May 25, 1956Waning Gibbous

Friday 25 May 1956400,581 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, May 25, 1956, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.3% of its visible face lit, 15.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.3%Illumination at noon UTC
15.0 dMoon age
400,581 km248,910 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (14°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 25, 1956 is on Thursday, May 24, 1956 at 15:26 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, June 8, 1956 at 21:29 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, May 24, 195615:26
Last Quarter (after)Friday, June 1, 195619:13

The Moon around May 25

More about this date

Friday, May 25, 1956 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 10, 1956 to the new moon of June 8, 1956, a cycle of 29.35 days.