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The Moon on Friday, May 27, 1983: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.5% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 13°

Moon age

14.7days

Moon phase on May 27, 1983Waning Gibbous

Friday 27 May 1983394,515 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, May 27, 1983, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.5% of its visible face lit, 14.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.5%Illumination at noon UTC
14.7 dMoon age
394,515 km245,140 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (14°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 27, 1983 is on Thursday, May 26, 1983 at 18:48 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, May 12, 1983 at 19:25 UTC, 15 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, May 26, 198318:48
Last Quarter (after)Friday, June 3, 198321:08

The Moon around May 27

More about this date

Friday, May 27, 1983 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 12, 1983 to the new moon of June 11, 1983, a cycle of 29.38 days.