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The Moon on Friday, December 5, 1941: Waning Gibbous, 97% lit

Waning · 97.4% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 00°

Moon age

16.5days

Moon phase on December 5, 1941Waning Gibbous

Friday 5 December 1941403,950 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 5, 1941, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 97.4% of its visible face lit, 16.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

97.4%Illumination at noon UTC
16.5 dMoon age
403,950 km251,003 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (1°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 5, 1941 is on Wednesday, December 3, 1941 at 20:51 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 18, 1941 at 10:18 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, December 3, 194120:51
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, December 11, 194118:48

The Moon around December 5

More about this date

Friday, December 5, 1941 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 19, 1941 to the new moon of December 18, 1941, a cycle of 29.43 days.