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The Moon on Sunday, May 27, 1956: Waning Gibbous, 93% lit

Waning · 92.5% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 07°

Moon age

17.0days

Moon phase on May 27, 1956Waning Gibbous

Sunday 27 May 1956404,425 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 27, 1956, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 92.5% of its visible face lit, 17.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

92.5%Illumination at noon UTC
17.0 dMoon age
404,425 km251,298 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (8°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 27, 1956 is on Thursday, May 24, 1956 at 15:26 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, June 8, 1956 at 21:29 UTC, 12 days later.

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

The Moon around May 27

More about this date

Sunday, May 27, 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.