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The Moon on Monday, December 11, 1939: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 0.5% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 25°

Moon age

0.6days

Moon phase on December 11, 1939Waxing Crescent

Monday 11 December 1939387,094 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, December 11, 1939, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.5% of its visible face lit, 0.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.5%Illumination at noon UTC
0.6 dMoon age
387,094 km240,529 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (26°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 11, 1939 is on Sunday, November 26, 1939 at 21:55 UTC, 15 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 10, 1939 at 21:46 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, December 10, 193921:46
First Quarter (after)Monday, December 18, 193921:04

The Moon around December 11

More about this date

Monday, December 11, 1939 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 10, 1939 to the new moon of January 9, 1940, a cycle of 29.67 days.