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The Moon on Sunday, December 12, 1937: Waxing Gibbous, 65% lit

Waxing · 65.4% lit · ♈︎ Aries 07°

Moon age

9.5days

Moon phase on December 12, 1937Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 12 December 1937376,862 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 12, 1937, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 65.4% of its visible face lit, 9.5 days after the new moon and growing each night.

65.4%Illumination at noon UTC
9.5 dMoon age
376,862 km234,171 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (8°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 12, 1937 is on Friday, December 17, 1937 at 18:52 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 2, 1937 at 23:11 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, December 11, 193701:13
Full Moon (after)Friday, December 17, 193718:52

The Moon around December 12

More about this date

Sunday, December 12, 1937 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 2, 1937 to the new moon of January 1, 1938, a cycle of 29.82 days.