Skip to content
The Moon on Friday, November 9, 1973: Waxing Gibbous, 98% lit

Waxing · 98.2% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 02°

Moon age

14.4days

Moon phase on November 9, 1973Waxing Gibbous

Friday 9 November 1973369,687 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, November 9, 1973, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 98.2% of its visible face lit, 14.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

98.2%Illumination at noon UTC
14.4 dMoon age
369,687 km229,713 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (2°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 9, 1973 is on Saturday, November 10, 1973 at 14:27 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, October 26, 1973 at 03:17 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, November 3, 197306:30
Full Moon (after)Saturday, November 10, 197314:27

The Moon around November 9

More about this date

Friday, November 9, 1973 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 26, 1973 to the new moon of November 24, 1973, a cycle of 29.69 days.