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The Moon on Tuesday, December 24, 1929: Waning Crescent, 36% lit

Waning · 35.5% lit · ♎︎ Libra 19°

Moon age

23.3days

Moon phase on December 24, 1929Waning Crescent

Tuesday 24 December 1929386,250 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 24, 1929, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 35.5% of its visible face lit, 23.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

35.5%Illumination at noon UTC
23.3 dMoon age
386,250 km240,005 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (19°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 24, 1929 is on Monday, December 16, 1929 at 11:38 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 30, 1929 at 23:42 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, December 23, 192902:27
New Moon (after)Monday, December 30, 192923:42

The Moon around December 24

More about this date

Tuesday, December 24, 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.