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The Moon on Sunday, December 15, 1940: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 01°

Moon age

16.1days

Moon phase on December 15, 1940Waning Gibbous

Sunday 15 December 1940390,172 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 15, 1940, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.3% of its visible face lit, 16.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.3%Illumination at noon UTC
16.1 dMoon age
390,172 km242,442 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (1°)
30.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 15, 1940 is on Saturday, December 14, 1940 at 19:38 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 28, 1940 at 20:56 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, December 14, 194019:38
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, December 22, 194001:45

The Moon around December 15

More about this date

Sunday, December 15, 1940 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 29, 1940 to the new moon of December 28, 1940, a cycle of 29.51 days.