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The Moon on Sunday, December 17, 1950: Waxing Gibbous, 62% lit

Waxing · 62.5% lit · ♈︎ Aries 09°

Moon age

8.1days

Moon phase on December 17, 1950Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 17 December 1950396,642 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 17, 1950, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 62.5% of its visible face lit, 8.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

62.5%Illumination at noon UTC
8.1 dMoon age
396,642 km246,462 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (9°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 17, 1950 is on Sunday, December 24, 1950 at 10:23 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 9, 1950 at 09:29 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, December 16, 195005:57
Full Moon (after)Sunday, December 24, 195010:23

The Moon around December 17

More about this date

Sunday, December 17, 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.