Skip to content
The Moon on Thursday, February 22, 1973: Waning Gibbous, 74% lit

Waning · 74.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 04°

Moon age

19.1days

Moon phase on February 22, 1973Waning Gibbous

Thursday 22 February 1973398,508 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, February 22, 1973, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 74.2% of its visible face lit, 19.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

74.2%Illumination at noon UTC
19.1 dMoon age
398,508 km247,621 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (5°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to February 22, 1973 is on Saturday, February 17, 1973 at 10:07 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, March 5, 1973 at 00:08 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, February 17, 197310:07
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, February 25, 197303:10

The Moon around February 22

More about this date

Thursday, February 22, 1973 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 3, 1973 to the new moon of March 5, 1973, a cycle of 29.61 days.