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The Moon on Friday, December 4, 1953: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 4.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 19°

Moon age

27.8days

Moon phase on December 4, 1953Waning Crescent

Friday 4 December 1953398,128 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 4, 1953, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.0% of its visible face lit, 27.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.0%Illumination at noon UTC
27.8 dMoon age
398,128 km247,385 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (20°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 4, 1953 is on Friday, November 20, 1953 at 23:12 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 6, 1953 at 10:48 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, November 28, 195308:16
New Moon (after)Sunday, December 6, 195310:48

The Moon around December 4

More about this date

Friday, December 4, 1953 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 6, 1953 to the new moon of December 6, 1953, a cycle of 29.70 days.