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The Moon on Friday, May 14, 1976: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 03°

Moon age

15.1days

Moon phase on May 14, 1976Waning Gibbous

Friday 14 May 1976362,091 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, May 14, 1976, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.3% of its visible face lit, 15.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.3%Illumination at noon UTC
15.1 dMoon age
362,091 km224,993 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (3°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 14, 1976 is on Thursday, May 13, 1976 at 20:04 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, May 29, 1976 at 01:47 UTC, 15 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, May 13, 197620:04
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, May 20, 197621:22

The Moon around May 14

More about this date

Friday, May 14, 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.