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The Moon on Friday, February 26, 1954: Waning Crescent, 45% lit

Waning · 45.0% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 13°

Moon age

22.8days

Moon phase on February 26, 1954Waning Crescent

Friday 26 February 1954395,232 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, February 26, 1954, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 45.0% of its visible face lit, 22.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

45.0%Illumination at noon UTC
22.8 dMoon age
395,232 km245,586 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (13°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to February 26, 1954 is on Wednesday, February 17, 1954 at 19:18 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, March 5, 1954 at 03:11 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, February 25, 195423:29
New Moon (after)Friday, March 5, 195403:11

The Moon around February 26

More about this date

Friday, February 26, 1954 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 3, 1954 to the new moon of March 5, 1954, a cycle of 29.47 days.