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The Moon on Saturday, December 30, 1950: Waning Gibbous, 68% lit

Waning · 68.0% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 17°

Moon age

21.1days

Moon phase on December 30, 1950Waning Gibbous

Saturday 30 December 1950385,644 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, December 30, 1950, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 68.0% of its visible face lit, 21.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

68.0%Illumination at noon UTC
21.1 dMoon age
385,644 km239,628 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (17°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 30, 1950 is on Sunday, December 24, 1950 at 10:23 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 7, 1951 at 20:10 UTC, 8 days later.

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

The Moon around December 30

More about this date

Saturday, December 30, 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.