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The Moon on Saturday, December 22, 1934: Waning Gibbous, 97% lit

Waning · 97.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 18°

Moon age

15.8days

Moon phase on December 22, 1934Waning Gibbous

Saturday 22 December 1934401,680 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, December 22, 1934, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 97.5% of its visible face lit, 15.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

97.5%Illumination at noon UTC
15.8 dMoon age
401,680 km249,592 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (18°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 22, 1934 is on Thursday, December 20, 1934 at 20:53 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 5, 1935 at 05:20 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, December 20, 193420:53
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, December 29, 193402:08

The Moon around December 22

More about this date

Saturday, December 22, 1934 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 6, 1934 to the new moon of January 5, 1935, a cycle of 29.50 days.