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The Moon on Tuesday, December 15, 1953: Waxing Gibbous, 70% lit

Waxing · 70.3% lit · ♈︎ Aries 17°

Moon age

9.0days

Moon phase on December 15, 1953Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 15 December 1953368,471 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 15, 1953, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 70.3% of its visible face lit, 9.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

70.3%Illumination at noon UTC
9.0 dMoon age
368,471 km228,957 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (17°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 15, 1953 is on Sunday, December 20, 1953 at 11:44 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 6, 1953 at 10:48 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, December 13, 195316:30
Full Moon (after)Sunday, December 20, 195311:44

The Moon around December 15

More about this date

Tuesday, December 15, 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.