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The Moon on Tuesday, December 19, 1939: Waxing Gibbous, 56% lit

Waxing · 56.0% lit · ♈︎ Aries 03°

Moon age

8.6days

Moon phase on December 19, 1939Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 19 December 1939402,290 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 19, 1939, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 56.0% of its visible face lit, 8.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

56.0%Illumination at noon UTC
8.6 dMoon age
402,290 km249,971 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (3°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 19, 1939 is on Tuesday, December 26, 1939 at 11:29 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 10, 1939 at 21:46 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, December 18, 193921:04
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, December 26, 193911:29

The Moon around December 19

More about this date

Tuesday, December 19, 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.