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The Moon on Tuesday, December 12, 1944: Waning Crescent, 10% lit

Waning · 10.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 13°

Moon age

26.6days

Moon phase on December 12, 1944Waning Crescent

Tuesday 12 December 1944397,449 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 12, 1944, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 10.0% of its visible face lit, 26.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

10.0%Illumination at noon UTC
26.6 dMoon age
397,449 km246,963 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (14°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

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

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, December 7, 194414:57
New Moon (after)Friday, December 15, 194414:35

The Moon around December 12

More about this date

Tuesday, December 12, 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.