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The Moon on Sunday, December 26, 1943: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.7% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 24°

Moon age

28.9days

Moon phase on December 26, 1943Waning Crescent

Sunday 26 December 1943367,359 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 26, 1943, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.7% of its visible face lit, 28.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.7%Illumination at noon UTC
28.9 dMoon age
367,359 km228,266 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (25°)
32.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 26, 1943 is on Saturday, December 11, 1943 at 16:25 UTC, 15 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 27, 1943 at 03:50 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, December 19, 194320:04
New Moon (after)Monday, December 27, 194303:50

The Moon around December 26

More about this date

Sunday, December 26, 1943 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 27, 1943 to the new moon of December 27, 1943, a cycle of 29.52 days.