Skip to content
The Moon on Sunday, February 6, 1972: Waning Gibbous, 59% lit

Waning · 59.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 06°

Moon age

21.0days

Moon phase on February 6, 1972Waning Gibbous

Sunday 6 February 1972404,426 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, February 6, 1972, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 59.2% of its visible face lit, 21.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

59.2%Illumination at noon UTC
21.0 dMoon age
404,426 km251,299 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (6°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to February 6, 1972 is on Sunday, January 30, 1972 at 10:58 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, February 15, 1972 at 00:29 UTC, 9 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, January 30, 197210:58
Last Quarter (after)Monday, February 7, 197211:12

The Moon around February 6

More about this date

Sunday, February 6, 1972 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 16, 1972 to the new moon of February 15, 1972, a cycle of 29.57 days.