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The Moon on Monday, December 19, 1938: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 4.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 01°

Moon age

27.5days

Moon phase on December 19, 1938Waning Crescent

Monday 19 December 1938397,285 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, December 19, 1938, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.8% of its visible face lit, 27.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.8%Illumination at noon UTC
27.5 dMoon age
397,285 km246,861 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (2°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 19, 1938 is on Wednesday, December 7, 1938 at 10:22 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, December 21, 1938 at 18:07 UTC, 2 days later.

The Moon around December 19

More about this date

Monday, December 19, 1938 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 22, 1938 to the new moon of December 21, 1938, a cycle of 29.75 days.