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The Moon on Saturday, December 9, 1939: Waning Crescent, 2% lit

Waning · 2.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 29°

Moon age

28.2days

Moon phase on December 9, 1939Waning Crescent

Saturday 9 December 1939379,717 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, December 9, 1939, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 2.3% of its visible face lit, 28.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

2.3%Illumination at noon UTC
28.2 dMoon age
379,717 km235,945 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (29°)
31.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 9, 1939 is on Sunday, November 26, 1939 at 21:55 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 10, 1939 at 21:46 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, December 3, 193920:40
New Moon (after)Sunday, December 10, 193921:46

The Moon around December 9

More about this date

Saturday, December 9, 1939 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 11, 1939 to the new moon of December 10, 1939, a cycle of 29.58 days.