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The Moon on Wednesday, December 18, 1918: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 04°

Moon age

14.9days

Moon phase on December 18, 1918Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 18 December 1918370,907 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 18, 1918, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.3% of its visible face lit, 14.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.3%Illumination at noon UTC
14.9 dMoon age
370,907 km230,471 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (5°)
32.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 18, 1918 is on Tuesday, December 17, 1918 at 19:17 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 2, 1919 at 08:24 UTC, 15 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, December 17, 191819:17
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, December 25, 191806:30

The Moon around December 18

More about this date

Wednesday, December 18, 1918 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 3, 1918 to the new moon of January 2, 1919, a cycle of 29.71 days.