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The Moon on Tuesday, December 24, 1918: Waning Gibbous, 57% lit

Waning · 57.5% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 23°

Moon age

20.9days

Moon phase on December 24, 1918Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 24 December 1918400,425 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 24, 1918, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 57.5% of its visible face lit, 20.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

57.5%Illumination at noon UTC
20.9 dMoon age
400,425 km248,812 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (23°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 24, 1918 is on Tuesday, December 17, 1918 at 19:17 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 2, 1919 at 08:24 UTC, 9 days later.

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

The Moon around December 24

More about this date

Tuesday, December 24, 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.