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The Moon on Sunday, December 23, 1945: Waning Gibbous, 77% lit

Waning · 77.1% lit · ♌︎ Leo 28°

Moon age

18.7days

Moon phase on December 23, 1945Waning Gibbous

Sunday 23 December 1945384,959 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 23, 1945, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 77.1% of its visible face lit, 18.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

77.1%Illumination at noon UTC
18.7 dMoon age
384,959 km239,202 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (29°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 23, 1945 is on Wednesday, December 19, 1945 at 02:17 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 3, 1946 at 12:30 UTC, 11 days later.

The Moon around December 23

More about this date

Sunday, December 23, 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.