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The Moon on Friday, December 22, 1939: Waxing Gibbous, 82% lit

Waxing · 82.5% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 10°

Moon age

11.6days

Moon phase on December 22, 1939Waxing Gibbous

Friday 22 December 1939390,439 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 22, 1939, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 82.5% of its visible face lit, 11.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

82.5%Illumination at noon UTC
11.6 dMoon age
390,439 km242,608 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (10°)
30.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 22, 1939 is on Tuesday, December 26, 1939 at 11:29 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 10, 1939 at 21:46 UTC, 12 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 22

More about this date

Friday, December 22, 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.