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The Moon on Saturday, December 17, 1949: Waning Crescent, 7% lit

Waning · 7.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 24°

Moon age

27.2days

Moon phase on December 17, 1949Waning Crescent

Saturday 17 December 1949364,431 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, December 17, 1949, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 7.3% of its visible face lit, 27.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

7.3%Illumination at noon UTC
27.2 dMoon age
364,431 km226,447 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (24°)
32.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 17, 1949 is on Monday, December 5, 1949 at 15:14 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 19, 1949 at 18:56 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, December 13, 194901:48
New Moon (after)Monday, December 19, 194918:56

The Moon around December 17

More about this date

Saturday, December 17, 1949 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 20, 1949 to the new moon of December 19, 1949, a cycle of 29.48 days.