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The Moon on Friday, December 30, 1938: Waxing Gibbous, 56% lit

Waxing · 55.6% lit · ♈︎ Aries 14°

Moon age

8.7days

Moon phase on December 30, 1938Waxing Gibbous

Friday 30 December 1938389,696 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 30, 1938, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 55.6% of its visible face lit, 8.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

55.6%Illumination at noon UTC
8.7 dMoon age
389,696 km242,146 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (14°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 30, 1938 is on Thursday, January 5, 1939 at 21:30 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, December 21, 1938 at 18:07 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, December 29, 193822:53
Full Moon (after)Thursday, January 5, 193921:30

The Moon around December 30

More about this date

Friday, December 30, 1938 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 21, 1938 to the new moon of January 20, 1939, a cycle of 29.81 days.