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The Moon on Sunday, May 30, 2010: Waning Gibbous, 93% lit

Waning · 93.3% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 09°

Moon age

16.5days

Moon phase on May 30, 2010Waning Gibbous

Sunday 30 May 2010394,957 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 30, 2010, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 93.3% of its visible face lit, 16.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

93.3%Illumination at noon UTC
16.5 dMoon age
394,957 km245,415 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (9°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 30, 2010 is on Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 23:07 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 11:15 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, May 27, 201023:07
Last Quarter (after)Friday, June 4, 201022:13

The Moon around May 30

More about this date

Sunday, May 30, 2010 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 14, 2010 to the new moon of June 12, 2010, a cycle of 29.42 days.