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The Moon on Thursday, December 18, 1941: New Moon, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.2% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 27°

New Moon at

10:18UTC

Moon phase on December 18, 1941New Moon

Thursday 18 December 1941358,791 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 18, 1941, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.2% of its visible face lit, 29.5 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.2%Illumination at noon UTC
29.5 dMoon age
358,791 km222,942 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (27°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 18, 1941 is on Wednesday, December 3, 1941 at 20:51 UTC, 15 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 18, 1941 at 10:18 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, December 11, 194118:48
New Moon (this day)Thursday, December 18, 194110:18
First Quarter (after)Thursday, December 25, 194110:44

The Moon around December 18

More about this date

Thursday, December 18, 1941 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 18, 1941 to the new moon of January 16, 1942, a cycle of 29.47 days.