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The Moon on Sunday, November 6, 1977: Waning Crescent, 27% lit

Waning · 27.3% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 11°

Moon age

24.6days

Moon phase on November 6, 1977Waning Crescent

Sunday 6 November 1977384,671 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, November 6, 1977, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 27.3% of its visible face lit, 24.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

27.3%Illumination at noon UTC
24.6 dMoon age
384,671 km239,024 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (11°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 6, 1977 is on Wednesday, October 26, 1977 at 23:36 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, November 11, 1977 at 07:09 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, November 4, 197703:59
New Moon (after)Friday, November 11, 197707:09

The Moon around November 6

More about this date

Sunday, November 6, 1977 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 12, 1977 to the new moon of November 11, 1977, a cycle of 29.44 days.