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The Moon on Sunday, December 5, 1948: Waxing Crescent, 22% lit

Waxing · 22.4% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 09°

Moon age

4.7days

Moon phase on December 5, 1948Waxing Crescent

Sunday 5 December 1948398,814 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 5, 1948, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 22.4% of its visible face lit, 4.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

22.4%Illumination at noon UTC
4.7 dMoon age
398,814 km247,812 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (10°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 5, 1948 is on Thursday, December 16, 1948 at 09:11 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, November 30, 1948 at 18:45 UTC, 5 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, November 30, 194818:45
First Quarter (after)Wednesday, December 8, 194813:58

The Moon around December 5

More about this date

Sunday, December 5, 1948 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 30, 1948 to the new moon of December 30, 1948, a cycle of 29.63 days.