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The Moon on Sunday, May 20, 2007: Waxing Crescent, 18% lit

Waxing · 17.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 18°

Moon age

3.7days

Moon phase on May 20, 2007Waxing Crescent

Sunday 20 May 2007377,460 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 20, 2007, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 17.8% of its visible face lit, 3.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

17.8%Illumination at noon UTC
3.7 dMoon age
377,460 km234,543 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (19°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 20, 2007 is on Friday, June 1, 2007 at 01:04 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 19:27 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Wednesday, May 16, 200719:27
First Quarter (after)Wednesday, May 23, 200721:03

The Moon around May 20

More about this date

Sunday, May 20, 2007 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 16, 2007 to the new moon of June 15, 2007, a cycle of 29.32 days.