Skip to content
The Moon on Friday, December 29, 1950: Waning Gibbous, 77% lit

Waning · 77.2% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 04°

Moon age

20.1days

Moon phase on December 29, 1950Waning Gibbous

Friday 29 December 1950389,963 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 29, 1950, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 77.2% of its visible face lit, 20.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

77.2%Illumination at noon UTC
20.1 dMoon age
389,963 km242,312 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (4°)
30.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 29, 1950 is on Sunday, December 24, 1950 at 10:23 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 7, 1951 at 20:10 UTC, 9 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, December 24, 195010:23
Last Quarter (after)Monday, January 1, 195105:11

The Moon around December 29

More about this date

Friday, December 29, 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.