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The Moon on Tuesday, June 27, 1972: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.5% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 14°

Moon age

16.0days

Moon phase on June 27, 1972Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 27 June 1972394,280 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, June 27, 1972, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.5% of its visible face lit, 16.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.5%Illumination at noon UTC
16.0 dMoon age
394,280 km244,994 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (14°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 27, 1972 is on Monday, June 26, 1972 at 18:46 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, July 10, 1972 at 19:39 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, June 26, 197218:46
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, July 4, 197203:26

The Moon around June 27

More about this date

Tuesday, June 27, 1972 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 11, 1972 to the new moon of July 10, 1972, a cycle of 29.34 days.