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The Moon on Wednesday, December 20, 1950: Waxing Gibbous, 87% lit

Waxing · 86.7% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 15°

Moon age

11.1days

Moon phase on December 20, 1950Waxing Gibbous

Wednesday 20 December 1950405,245 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 20, 1950, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 86.7% of its visible face lit, 11.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

86.7%Illumination at noon UTC
11.1 dMoon age
405,245 km251,808 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (15°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 20, 1950 is on Sunday, December 24, 1950 at 10:23 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 9, 1950 at 09:29 UTC, 11 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 20

More about this date

Wednesday, December 20, 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.