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The Moon on Wednesday, December 18, 1929: Waning Gibbous, 94% lit

Waning · 93.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 24°

Moon age

17.3days

Moon phase on December 18, 1929Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 18 December 1929359,336 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 18, 1929, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 93.8% of its visible face lit, 17.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

93.8%Illumination at noon UTC
17.3 dMoon age
359,336 km223,281 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (25°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 18, 1929 is on Monday, December 16, 1929 at 11:38 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 30, 1929 at 23:42 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, December 16, 192911:38
Last Quarter (after)Monday, December 23, 192902:27

The Moon around December 18

More about this date

Wednesday, December 18, 1929 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 1, 1929 to the new moon of December 30, 1929, a cycle of 29.79 days.