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The Moon on Tuesday, December 12, 1950: Waxing Crescent, 14% lit

Waxing · 13.8% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 03°

Moon age

3.1days

Moon phase on December 12, 1950Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 12 December 1950367,602 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 12, 1950, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 13.8% of its visible face lit, 3.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

13.8%Illumination at noon UTC
3.1 dMoon age
367,602 km228,417 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (3°)
32.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 12, 1950 is on Sunday, December 24, 1950 at 10:23 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 9, 1950 at 09:29 UTC, 3 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, December 9, 195009:29
First Quarter (after)Saturday, December 16, 195005:57

The Moon around December 12

More about this date

Tuesday, December 12, 1950 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 9, 1950 to the new moon of January 7, 1951, a cycle of 29.45 days.