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The Moon on Tuesday, December 8, 1953: Waxing Crescent, 5% lit

Waxing · 4.5% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 10°

Moon age

2.0days

Moon phase on December 8, 1953Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 8 December 1953384,350 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 8, 1953, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 4.5% of its visible face lit, 2.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

4.5%Illumination at noon UTC
2.0 dMoon age
384,350 km238,824 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (11°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 8, 1953 is on Sunday, December 20, 1953 at 11:44 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 6, 1953 at 10:48 UTC, 2 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 8

More about this date

Tuesday, December 8, 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.