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The Moon on Thursday, May 9, 1963: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 26°

Moon age

15.6days

Moon phase on May 9, 1963Waning Gibbous

Thursday 9 May 1963404,537 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, May 9, 1963, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.3% of its visible face lit, 15.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.3%Illumination at noon UTC
15.6 dMoon age
404,537 km251,367 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (27°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 9, 1963 is on Wednesday, May 8, 1963 at 17:23 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, May 23, 1963 at 04:00 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, May 8, 196317:23
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, May 16, 196313:36

The Moon around May 9

More about this date

Thursday, May 9, 1963 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 23, 1963 to the new moon of May 23, 1963, a cycle of 29.31 days.