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The Moon on Sunday, December 12, 1954: Waning Gibbous, 92% lit

Waning · 91.6% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 23°

Moon age

17.0days

Moon phase on December 12, 1954Waning Gibbous

Sunday 12 December 1954368,694 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 12, 1954, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 91.6% of its visible face lit, 17.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

91.6%Illumination at noon UTC
17.0 dMoon age
368,694 km229,096 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (24°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 12, 1954 is on Friday, December 10, 1954 at 00:57 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 25, 1954 at 07:33 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, December 10, 195400:57
Last Quarter (after)Friday, December 17, 195402:22

The Moon around December 12

More about this date

Sunday, December 12, 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.