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The Moon on Friday, December 24, 1954: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.6% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 23°

Moon age

29.0days

Moon phase on December 24, 1954Waning Crescent

Friday 24 December 1954401,898 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 24, 1954, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.6% of its visible face lit, 29.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.6%Illumination at noon UTC
29.0 dMoon age
401,898 km249,728 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (23°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 24, 1954 is on Friday, December 10, 1954 at 00:57 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 25, 1954 at 07:33 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around December 24

More about this date

Friday, December 24, 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.