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The Moon on Sunday, May 25, 1986: Waning Gibbous, 96% lit

Waning · 95.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 27°

Moon age

16.6days

Moon phase on May 25, 1986Waning Gibbous

Sunday 25 May 1986358,909 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 25, 1986, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 95.8% of its visible face lit, 16.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.8%Illumination at noon UTC
16.6 dMoon age
358,909 km223,015 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (27°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 25, 1986 is on Friday, May 23, 1986 at 20:45 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, June 7, 1986 at 14:01 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, May 23, 198620:45
Last Quarter (after)Friday, May 30, 198612:55

The Moon around May 25

More about this date

Sunday, May 25, 1986 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 8, 1986 to the new moon of June 7, 1986, a cycle of 29.66 days.