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The Moon on Tuesday, May 25, 1976: Waning Crescent, 11% lit

Waning · 11.4% lit · ♈︎ Aries 25°

Moon age

26.1days

Moon phase on May 25, 1976Waning Crescent

Tuesday 25 May 1976405,466 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, May 25, 1976, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 11.4% of its visible face lit, 26.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

11.4%Illumination at noon UTC
26.1 dMoon age
405,466 km251,945 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (25°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 25, 1976 is on Thursday, May 13, 1976 at 20:04 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, May 29, 1976 at 01:47 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, May 20, 197621:22
New Moon (after)Saturday, May 29, 197601:47

The Moon around May 25

More about this date

Tuesday, May 25, 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.