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The Moon on Wednesday, December 13, 1950: Waxing Crescent, 23% lit

Waxing · 22.5% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 17°

Moon age

4.1days

Moon phase on December 13, 1950Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 13 December 1950373,565 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 13, 1950, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 22.5% of its visible face lit, 4.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

22.5%Illumination at noon UTC
4.1 dMoon age
373,565 km232,122 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (17°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 13, 1950 is on Sunday, December 24, 1950 at 10:23 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 9, 1950 at 09:29 UTC, 4 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 13

More about this date

Wednesday, December 13, 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.