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The Moon on Wednesday, May 12, 1976: Waxing Gibbous, 97% lit

Waxing · 97.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 03°

Moon age

13.1days

Moon phase on May 12, 1976Waxing Gibbous

Wednesday 12 May 1976359,195 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, May 12, 1976, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 97.3% of its visible face lit, 13.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

97.3%Illumination at noon UTC
13.1 dMoon age
359,195 km223,193 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (3°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 12, 1976 is on Thursday, May 13, 1976 at 20:04 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, April 29, 1976 at 10:20 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Friday, May 7, 197605:17
Full Moon (after)Thursday, May 13, 197620:04

The Moon around May 12

More about this date

Wednesday, May 12, 1976 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 29, 1976 to the new moon of May 29, 1976, a cycle of 29.64 days.