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The Moon on Thursday, December 23, 1954: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 3.1% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 11°

Moon age

28.0days

Moon phase on December 23, 1954Waning Crescent

Thursday 23 December 1954403,891 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 23, 1954, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.1% of its visible face lit, 28.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.1%Illumination at noon UTC
28.0 dMoon age
403,891 km250,966 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (11°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 23, 1954 is on Friday, December 10, 1954 at 00:57 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 25, 1954 at 07:33 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around December 23

More about this date

Thursday, December 23, 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.