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The Moon on Tuesday, December 25, 1951: Waning Crescent, 13% lit

Waning · 12.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 21°

Moon age

26.5days

Moon phase on December 25, 1951Waning Crescent

Tuesday 25 December 1951367,923 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 25, 1951, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 12.8% of its visible face lit, 26.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

12.8%Illumination at noon UTC
26.5 dMoon age
367,923 km228,616 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (21°)
32.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 25, 1951 is on Thursday, December 13, 1951 at 09:31 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 28, 1951 at 11:43 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, December 21, 195114:38
New Moon (after)Friday, December 28, 195111:43

The Moon around December 25

More about this date

Tuesday, December 25, 1951 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 29, 1951 to the new moon of December 28, 1951, a cycle of 29.45 days.