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The Moon on Wednesday, May 30, 1962: Waning Crescent, 12% lit

Waning · 12.2% lit · ♈︎ Aries 28°

Moon age

26.3days

Moon phase on May 30, 1962Waning Crescent

Wednesday 30 May 1962368,162 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, May 30, 1962, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 12.2% of its visible face lit, 26.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

12.2%Illumination at noon UTC
26.3 dMoon age
368,162 km228,765 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (28°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 30, 1962 is on Saturday, May 19, 1962 at 14:32 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, June 2, 1962 at 13:27 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, May 26, 196219:05
New Moon (after)Saturday, June 2, 196213:27

The Moon around May 30

More about this date

Wednesday, May 30, 1962 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 4, 1962 to the new moon of June 2, 1962, a cycle of 29.38 days.