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The Moon on Sunday, December 17, 1939: Waxing Crescent, 37% lit

Waxing · 37.3% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 09°

Moon age

6.6days

Moon phase on December 17, 1939Waxing Crescent

Sunday 17 December 1939404,491 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 17, 1939, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 37.3% of its visible face lit, 6.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

37.3%Illumination at noon UTC
6.6 dMoon age
404,491 km251,339 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (10°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 17, 1939 is on Tuesday, December 26, 1939 at 11:29 UTC, 9 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 10, 1939 at 21:46 UTC, 7 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 17

More about this date

Sunday, December 17, 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.