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The Moon on Monday, December 7, 1953: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 1.2% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 27°

Moon age

1.0days

Moon phase on December 7, 1953Waxing Crescent

Monday 7 December 1953387,732 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, December 7, 1953, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 1.2% of its visible face lit, 1.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

1.2%Illumination at noon UTC
1.0 dMoon age
387,732 km240,925 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (28°)
30.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 7, 1953 is on Sunday, December 20, 1953 at 11:44 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 6, 1953 at 10:48 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, December 6, 195310:48
First Quarter (after)Sunday, December 13, 195316:30

The Moon around December 7

More about this date

Monday, December 7, 1953 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 6, 1953 to the new moon of January 5, 1954, a cycle of 29.65 days.