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The Moon on Thursday, December 10, 1953: Waxing Crescent, 17% lit

Waxing · 17.4% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 07°

Moon age

4.0days

Moon phase on December 10, 1953Waxing Crescent

Thursday 10 December 1953378,300 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 10, 1953, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 17.4% of its visible face lit, 4.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

17.4%Illumination at noon UTC
4.0 dMoon age
378,300 km235,064 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (7°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 10, 1953 is on Sunday, December 20, 1953 at 11:44 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 6, 1953 at 10:48 UTC, 4 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 10

More about this date

Thursday, December 10, 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.