Skip to content
The Moon on Wednesday, May 27, 2009: Waxing Crescent, 13% lit

Waxing · 12.7% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 17°

Moon age

3.0days

Moon phase on May 27, 2009Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 27 May 2009362,529 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, May 27, 2009, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 12.7% of its visible face lit, 3.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

12.7%Illumination at noon UTC
3.0 dMoon age
362,529 km225,265 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (18°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 27, 2009 is on Sunday, June 7, 2009 at 18:12 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, May 24, 2009 at 12:11 UTC, 3 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, May 24, 200912:11
First Quarter (after)Sunday, May 31, 200903:22

The Moon around May 27

More about this date

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 24, 2009 to the new moon of June 22, 2009, a cycle of 29.31 days.