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The Moon on Sunday, December 3, 1944: Waning Gibbous, 86% lit

Waning · 86.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 24°

Moon age

17.6days

Moon phase on December 3, 1944Waning Gibbous

Sunday 3 December 1944387,398 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 3, 1944, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 86.3% of its visible face lit, 17.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

86.3%Illumination at noon UTC
17.6 dMoon age
387,398 km240,718 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (25°)
30.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 3, 1944 is on Thursday, November 30, 1944 at 00:52 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 15, 1944 at 14:35 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, November 30, 194400:52
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, December 7, 194414:57

The Moon around December 3

More about this date

Sunday, December 3, 1944 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 15, 1944 to the new moon of December 15, 1944, a cycle of 29.67 days.