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The Moon on Sunday, December 21, 1941: Waxing Crescent, 13% lit

Waxing · 13.0% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 11°

Moon age

3.1days

Moon phase on December 21, 1941Waxing Crescent

Sunday 21 December 1941371,189 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 21, 1941, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 13.0% of its visible face lit, 3.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

13.0%Illumination at noon UTC
3.1 dMoon age
371,189 km230,646 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (11°)
32.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 21, 1941 is on Friday, January 2, 1942 at 15:42 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 18, 1941 at 10:18 UTC, 3 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, December 18, 194110:18
First Quarter (after)Thursday, December 25, 194110:44

The Moon around December 21

More about this date

Sunday, December 21, 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.