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The Moon on Saturday, December 29, 1945: Waning Crescent, 22% lit

Waning · 21.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 11°

Moon age

24.7days

Moon phase on December 29, 1945Waning Crescent

Saturday 29 December 1945405,303 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, December 29, 1945, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 21.8% of its visible face lit, 24.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

21.8%Illumination at noon UTC
24.7 dMoon age
405,303 km251,843 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (12°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 29, 1945 is on Wednesday, December 19, 1945 at 02:17 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 3, 1946 at 12:30 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, December 26, 194508:00
New Moon (after)Thursday, January 3, 194612:30

The Moon around December 29

More about this date

Saturday, December 29, 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.