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The Moon on Friday, December 15, 1950: Waxing Crescent, 42% lit

Waxing · 42.5% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 14°

Moon age

6.1days

Moon phase on December 15, 1950Waxing Crescent

Friday 15 December 1950386,091 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 15, 1950, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 42.5% of its visible face lit, 6.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

42.5%Illumination at noon UTC
6.1 dMoon age
386,091 km239,906 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (14°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 15, 1950 is on Sunday, December 24, 1950 at 10:23 UTC, 9 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 9, 1950 at 09:29 UTC, 6 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 15

More about this date

Friday, December 15, 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.