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The Moon on Friday, November 18, 1949: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 4.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 00°

Moon age

27.6days

Moon phase on November 18, 1949Waning Crescent

Friday 18 November 1949359,778 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, November 18, 1949, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.9% of its visible face lit, 27.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.9%Illumination at noon UTC
27.6 dMoon age
359,778 km223,555 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (0°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 18, 1949 is on Saturday, November 5, 1949 at 21:09 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, November 20, 1949 at 07:29 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, November 13, 194915:48
New Moon (after)Sunday, November 20, 194907:29

The Moon around November 18

More about this date

Friday, November 18, 1949 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 21, 1949 to the new moon of November 20, 1949, a cycle of 29.42 days.