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The Moon on Monday, December 18, 1950: Waxing Gibbous, 72% lit

Waxing · 71.6% lit · ♈︎ Aries 21°

Moon age

9.1days

Moon phase on December 18, 1950Waxing Gibbous

Monday 18 December 1950400,543 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, December 18, 1950, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 71.6% of its visible face lit, 9.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

71.6%Illumination at noon UTC
9.1 dMoon age
400,543 km248,886 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (21°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 18, 1950 is on Sunday, December 24, 1950 at 10:23 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 9, 1950 at 09:29 UTC, 9 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 18

More about this date

Monday, December 18, 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.