Skip to content
The Moon on Saturday, November 18, 1972: Waxing Gibbous, 91% lit

Waxing · 90.9% lit · ♈︎ Aries 21°

Moon age

12.4days

Moon phase on November 18, 1972Waxing Gibbous

Saturday 18 November 1972362,520 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, November 18, 1972, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 90.9% of its visible face lit, 12.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

90.9%Illumination at noon UTC
12.4 dMoon age
362,520 km225,259 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (21°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 18, 1972 is on Monday, November 20, 1972 at 23:07 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, November 6, 1972 at 01:22 UTC, 12 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Tuesday, November 14, 197205:01
Full Moon (after)Monday, November 20, 197223:07

The Moon around November 18

More about this date

Saturday, November 18, 1972 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 6, 1972 to the new moon of December 5, 1972, a cycle of 29.79 days.