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The Moon on Tuesday, November 15, 1955: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 0.9% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 03°

Moon age

1.0days

Moon phase on November 15, 1955Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 15 November 1955403,565 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, November 15, 1955, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.9% of its visible face lit, 1.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.9%Illumination at noon UTC
1.0 dMoon age
403,565 km250,764 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (3°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 15, 1955 is on Tuesday, November 29, 1955 at 16:50 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, November 14, 1955 at 12:02 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, November 14, 195512:02
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, November 22, 195517:29

The Moon around November 15

More about this date

Tuesday, November 15, 1955 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 14, 1955 to the new moon of December 14, 1955, a cycle of 29.80 days.