Skip to content
The Moon on Friday, May 21, 1982: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 4.4% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 06°

Moon age

27.6days

Moon phase on May 21, 1982Waning Crescent

Friday 21 May 1982364,758 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, May 21, 1982, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.4% of its visible face lit, 27.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.4%Illumination at noon UTC
27.6 dMoon age
364,758 km226,650 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (6°)
32.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 21, 1982 is on Saturday, May 8, 1982 at 00:45 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, May 23, 1982 at 04:40 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, May 16, 198205:11
New Moon (after)Sunday, May 23, 198204:40

The Moon around May 21

More about this date

Friday, May 21, 1982 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 23, 1982 to the new moon of May 23, 1982, a cycle of 29.34 days.