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The Moon on Sunday, December 9, 1945: Waxing Crescent, 21% lit

Waxing · 20.6% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 10°

Moon age

4.7days

Moon phase on December 9, 1945Waxing Crescent

Sunday 9 December 1945389,101 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 9, 1945, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 20.6% of its visible face lit, 4.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

20.6%Illumination at noon UTC
4.7 dMoon age
389,101 km241,776 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (11°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 9, 1945 is on Wednesday, December 19, 1945 at 02:17 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, December 4, 1945 at 18:07 UTC, 5 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, December 4, 194518:07
First Quarter (after)Wednesday, December 12, 194511:05

The Moon around December 9

More about this date

Sunday, December 9, 1945 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 4, 1945 to the new moon of January 3, 1946, a cycle of 29.77 days.