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The Moon on Saturday, May 19, 1973: Waning Gibbous, 95% lit

Waning · 95.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 23°

Moon age

16.6days

Moon phase on May 19, 1973Waning Gibbous

Saturday 19 May 1973405,940 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, May 19, 1973, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 95.3% of its visible face lit, 16.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.3%Illumination at noon UTC
16.6 dMoon age
405,940 km252,239 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (23°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 19, 1973 is on Thursday, May 17, 1973 at 04:58 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, June 1, 1973 at 04:34 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, May 17, 197304:58
Last Quarter (after)Friday, May 25, 197308:40

The Moon around May 19

More about this date

Saturday, May 19, 1973 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 2, 1973 to the new moon of June 1, 1973, a cycle of 29.32 days.