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The Moon on Sunday, May 16, 1965: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.0% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 06°

Moon age

15.0days

Moon phase on May 16, 1965Waning Gibbous

Sunday 16 May 1965396,544 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 16, 1965, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.0% of its visible face lit, 15.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.0%Illumination at noon UTC
15.0 dMoon age
396,544 km246,401 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (7°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 16, 1965 is on Saturday, May 15, 1965 at 11:52 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, May 30, 1965 at 21:13 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, May 15, 196511:52
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, May 23, 196514:40

The Moon around May 16

More about this date

Sunday, May 16, 1965 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 1, 1965 to the new moon of May 30, 1965, a cycle of 29.39 days.