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The Moon on Sunday, December 2, 1945: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 4.6% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 15°

Moon age

27.5days

Moon phase on December 2, 1945Waning Crescent

Sunday 2 December 1945406,032 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 2, 1945, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.6% of its visible face lit, 27.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.6%Illumination at noon UTC
27.5 dMoon age
406,032 km252,296 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (15°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 2, 1945 is on Monday, November 19, 1945 at 15:13 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, December 4, 1945 at 18:07 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, November 26, 194513:28
New Moon (after)Tuesday, December 4, 194518:07

The Moon around December 2

More about this date

Sunday, December 2, 1945 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 4, 1945 to the new moon of December 4, 1945, a cycle of 29.79 days.