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The Moon on Monday, June 22, 1959: Waning Gibbous, 96% lit

Waning · 95.9% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 23°

Moon age

16.0days

Moon phase on June 22, 1959Waning Gibbous

Monday 22 June 1959366,936 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, June 22, 1959, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 95.9% of its visible face lit, 16.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.9%Illumination at noon UTC
16.0 dMoon age
366,936 km228,003 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (23°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 22, 1959 is on Saturday, June 20, 1959 at 20:00 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, July 6, 1959 at 02:01 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, June 20, 195920:00
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, June 27, 195922:12

The Moon around June 22

More about this date

Monday, June 22, 1959 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 6, 1959 to the new moon of July 6, 1959, a cycle of 29.59 days.