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The Moon on Friday, November 30, 1956: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 3.6% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 16°

Moon age

27.8days

Moon phase on November 30, 1956Waning Crescent

Friday 30 November 1956387,266 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, November 30, 1956, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.6% of its visible face lit, 27.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.6%Illumination at noon UTC
27.8 dMoon age
387,266 km240,636 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (17°)
30.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 30, 1956 is on Sunday, November 18, 1956 at 06:45 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 2, 1956 at 08:13 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, November 25, 195601:13
New Moon (after)Sunday, December 2, 195608:13

The Moon around November 30

More about this date

Friday, November 30, 1956 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 2, 1956 to the new moon of December 2, 1956, a cycle of 29.65 days.