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The Moon on Sunday, May 29, 1960: Waxing Crescent, 14% lit

Waxing · 13.9% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 21°

Moon age

4.0days

Moon phase on May 29, 1960Waxing Crescent

Sunday 29 May 1960405,453 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 29, 1960, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 13.9% of its visible face lit, 4.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

13.9%Illumination at noon UTC
4.0 dMoon age
405,453 km251,936 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (22°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 29, 1960 is on Thursday, June 9, 1960 at 13:02 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, May 25, 1960 at 12:26 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Wednesday, May 25, 196012:26
First Quarter (after)Thursday, June 2, 196016:01

The Moon around May 29

More about this date

Sunday, May 29, 1960 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 25, 1960 to the new moon of June 24, 1960, a cycle of 29.63 days.