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The Moon on Sunday, November 19, 1972: Waxing Gibbous, 97% lit

Waxing · 96.6% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 06°

Moon age

13.4days

Moon phase on November 19, 1972Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 19 November 1972358,767 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, November 19, 1972, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 96.6% of its visible face lit, 13.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

96.6%Illumination at noon UTC
13.4 dMoon age
358,767 km222,927 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (6°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 19, 1972 is on Monday, November 20, 1972 at 23:07 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, November 6, 1972 at 01:22 UTC, 13 days earlier.

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

The Moon around November 19

More about this date

Sunday, November 19, 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.