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The Moon on Sunday, December 19, 1937: Waning Gibbous, 96% lit

Waning · 95.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 21°

Moon age

16.5days

Moon phase on December 19, 1937Waning Gibbous

Sunday 19 December 1937360,341 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 19, 1937, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 95.5% of its visible face lit, 16.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.5%Illumination at noon UTC
16.5 dMoon age
360,341 km223,906 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (21°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 19, 1937 is on Friday, December 17, 1937 at 18:52 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 1, 1938 at 18:58 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, December 17, 193718:52
Last Quarter (after)Friday, December 24, 193714:20

The Moon around December 19

More about this date

Sunday, December 19, 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.