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The Moon on Sunday, May 6, 2007: Waning Gibbous, 85% lit

Waning · 84.8% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 01°

Moon age

19.0days

Moon phase on May 6, 2007Waning Gibbous

Sunday 6 May 2007394,718 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 6, 2007, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 84.8% of its visible face lit, 19.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

84.8%Illumination at noon UTC
19.0 dMoon age
394,718 km245,266 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (1°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 6, 2007 is on Wednesday, May 2, 2007 at 10:10 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 19:27 UTC, 10 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, May 2, 200710:10
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, May 10, 200704:27

The Moon around May 6

More about this date

Sunday, May 6, 2007 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 17, 2007 to the new moon of May 16, 2007, a cycle of 29.33 days.