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The Moon on Thursday, May 27, 1999: Waxing Gibbous, 93% lit

Waxing · 93.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 05°

Moon age

12.0days

Moon phase on May 27, 1999Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 27 May 1999405,148 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, May 27, 1999, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 93.0% of its visible face lit, 12.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

93.0%Illumination at noon UTC
12.0 dMoon age
405,148 km251,747 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (5°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 27, 1999 is on Sunday, May 30, 1999 at 06:40 UTC, 3 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, May 15, 1999 at 12:05 UTC, 12 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, May 22, 199905:34
Full Moon (after)Sunday, May 30, 199906:40

The Moon around May 27

More about this date

Thursday, May 27, 1999 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 15, 1999 to the new moon of June 13, 1999, a cycle of 29.29 days.