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The Moon on Sunday, December 31, 1950: Waning Gibbous, 58% lit

Waning · 57.8% lit · ♎︎ Libra 00°

Moon age

22.1days

Moon phase on December 31, 1950Waning Gibbous

Sunday 31 December 1950380,944 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 31, 1950, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 57.8% of its visible face lit, 22.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

57.8%Illumination at noon UTC
22.1 dMoon age
380,944 km236,707 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (0°)
31.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 31, 1950 is on Sunday, December 24, 1950 at 10:23 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 7, 1951 at 20:10 UTC, 7 days later.

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

The Moon around December 31

More about this date

Sunday, December 31, 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.