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The Moon on Sunday, December 30, 1945: Waning Crescent, 15% lit

Waning · 14.6% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 23°

Moon age

25.7days

Moon phase on December 30, 1945Waning Crescent

Sunday 30 December 1945404,719 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 30, 1945, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 14.6% of its visible face lit, 25.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

14.6%Illumination at noon UTC
25.7 dMoon age
404,719 km251,480 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (24°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

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

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

The Moon around December 30

More about this date

Sunday, December 30, 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.