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The Moon on Tuesday, May 27, 1958: Waxing Gibbous, 65% lit

Waxing · 64.9% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 22°

Moon age

8.7days

Moon phase on May 27, 1958Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 27 May 1958368,524 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, May 27, 1958, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 64.9% of its visible face lit, 8.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

64.9%Illumination at noon UTC
8.7 dMoon age
368,524 km228,990 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (23°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 27, 1958 is on Sunday, June 1, 1958 at 20:55 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, May 18, 1958 at 19:01 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, May 26, 195804:38
Full Moon (after)Sunday, June 1, 195820:55

The Moon around May 27

More about this date

Tuesday, May 27, 1958 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 18, 1958 to the new moon of June 17, 1958, a cycle of 29.54 days.