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The Moon on Tuesday, December 5, 1933: Waning Gibbous, 90% lit

Waning · 89.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 20°

Moon age

17.8days

Moon phase on December 5, 1933Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 5 December 1933405,841 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 5, 1933, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 89.8% of its visible face lit, 17.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

89.8%Illumination at noon UTC
17.8 dMoon age
405,841 km252,178 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (20°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 5, 1933 is on Saturday, December 2, 1933 at 01:31 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 17, 1933 at 02:53 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, December 2, 193301:31
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, December 10, 193306:24

The Moon around December 5

More about this date

Tuesday, December 5, 1933 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 17, 1933 to the new moon of December 17, 1933, a cycle of 29.44 days.