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The Moon on Tuesday, December 13, 1955: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.6% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 12°

Moon age

29.0days

Moon phase on December 13, 1955Waning Crescent

Tuesday 13 December 1955405,483 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 13, 1955, 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
405,483 km251,956 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (12°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 13, 1955 is on Tuesday, November 29, 1955 at 16:50 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, December 14, 1955 at 07:07 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, December 6, 195508:36
New Moon (after)Wednesday, December 14, 195507:07

The Moon around December 13

More about this date

Tuesday, December 13, 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.