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The Moon on Tuesday, December 19, 1950: Waxing Gibbous, 80% lit

Waxing · 79.7% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 03°

Moon age

10.1days

Moon phase on December 19, 1950Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 19 December 1950403,404 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 19, 1950, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 79.7% of its visible face lit, 10.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

79.7%Illumination at noon UTC
10.1 dMoon age
403,404 km250,664 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (3°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 19, 1950 is on Sunday, December 24, 1950 at 10:23 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 9, 1950 at 09:29 UTC, 10 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 19

More about this date

Tuesday, December 19, 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.