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The Moon on Wednesday, December 15, 1954: Waning Gibbous, 66% lit

Waning · 66.0% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 04°

Moon age

20.0days

Moon phase on December 15, 1954Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 15 December 1954387,054 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 15, 1954, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 66.0% of its visible face lit, 20.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

66.0%Illumination at noon UTC
20.0 dMoon age
387,054 km240,504 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (4°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 15, 1954 is on Friday, December 10, 1954 at 00:57 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 25, 1954 at 07:33 UTC, 10 days later.

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

The Moon around December 15

More about this date

Wednesday, December 15, 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.