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The Moon on Sunday, December 22, 1946: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 1.0% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 18°

Moon age

28.8days

Moon phase on December 22, 1946Waning Crescent

Sunday 22 December 1946406,449 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 22, 1946, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.0% of its visible face lit, 28.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.0%Illumination at noon UTC
28.8 dMoon age
406,449 km252,556 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (19°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 22, 1946 is on Sunday, December 8, 1946 at 17:52 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 23, 1946 at 13:06 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, December 15, 194610:57
New Moon (after)Monday, December 23, 194613:06

The Moon around December 22

More about this date

Sunday, December 22, 1946 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 23, 1946 to the new moon of December 23, 1946, a cycle of 29.82 days.