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The Moon on Wednesday, December 22, 1954: Waning Crescent, 7% lit

Waning · 7.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 29°

Moon age

27.0days

Moon phase on December 22, 1954Waning Crescent

Wednesday 22 December 1954405,259 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 22, 1954, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 7.2% of its visible face lit, 27.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

7.2%Illumination at noon UTC
27.0 dMoon age
405,259 km251,816 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (29°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 22, 1954 is on Friday, December 10, 1954 at 00:57 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 25, 1954 at 07:33 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, December 17, 195402:22
New Moon (after)Saturday, December 25, 195407:33

The Moon around December 22

More about this date

Wednesday, December 22, 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.