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The Moon on Wednesday, December 8, 1954: Waxing Gibbous, 96% lit

Waxing · 96.4% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 24°

Moon age

13.0days

Moon phase on December 8, 1954Waxing Gibbous

Wednesday 8 December 1954358,658 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 8, 1954, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 96.4% of its visible face lit, 13.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

96.4%Illumination at noon UTC
13.0 dMoon age
358,658 km222,860 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (24°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 8, 1954 is on Friday, December 10, 1954 at 00:57 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, November 25, 1954 at 12:31 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Friday, December 3, 195409:56
Full Moon (after)Friday, December 10, 195400:57

The Moon around December 8

More about this date

Wednesday, December 8, 1954 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 25, 1954 to the new moon of December 25, 1954, a cycle of 29.79 days.