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The Moon on Friday, December 8, 1950: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 1.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 03°

Moon age

28.5days

Moon phase on December 8, 1950Waning Crescent

Friday 8 December 1950357,145 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 8, 1950, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.4% of its visible face lit, 28.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.4%Illumination at noon UTC
28.5 dMoon age
357,145 km221,919 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (3°)
33.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 8, 1950 is on Friday, November 24, 1950 at 15:14 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 9, 1950 at 09:29 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, December 2, 195016:22
New Moon (after)Saturday, December 9, 195009:29

The Moon around December 8

More about this date

Friday, December 8, 1950 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 9, 1950 to the new moon of December 9, 1950, a cycle of 29.42 days.