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The Moon on Sunday, December 22, 1929: Waning Gibbous, 57% lit

Waning · 56.7% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 22°

Moon age

21.3days

Moon phase on December 22, 1929Waning Gibbous

Sunday 22 December 1929375,893 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 22, 1929, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 56.7% of its visible face lit, 21.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

56.7%Illumination at noon UTC
21.3 dMoon age
375,893 km233,569 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (23°)
31.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 22, 1929 is on Monday, December 16, 1929 at 11:38 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 30, 1929 at 23:42 UTC, 8 days later.

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

The Moon around December 22

More about this date

Sunday, December 22, 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.