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The Moon on Sunday, May 8, 1994: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 4.4% lit · ♈︎ Aries 23°

Moon age

27.5days

Moon phase on May 8, 1994Waning Crescent

Sunday 8 May 1994406,282 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 8, 1994, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.4% of its visible face lit, 27.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.4%Illumination at noon UTC
27.5 dMoon age
406,282 km252,452 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (24°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 8, 1994 is on Monday, April 25, 1994 at 19:45 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, May 10, 1994 at 17:07 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, May 2, 199414:33
New Moon (after)Tuesday, May 10, 199417:07

The Moon around May 8

More about this date

Sunday, May 8, 1994 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 11, 1994 to the new moon of May 10, 1994, a cycle of 29.70 days.