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The Moon on Thursday, December 6, 1956: Waxing Crescent, 16% lit

Waxing · 15.8% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 00°

Moon age

4.2days

Moon phase on December 6, 1956Waxing Crescent

Thursday 6 December 1956404,507 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 6, 1956, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 15.8% of its visible face lit, 4.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

15.8%Illumination at noon UTC
4.2 dMoon age
404,507 km251,349 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (1°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 6, 1956 is on Monday, December 17, 1956 at 19:06 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 2, 1956 at 08:13 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, December 2, 195608:13
First Quarter (after)Monday, December 10, 195611:51

The Moon around December 6

More about this date

Thursday, December 6, 1956 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 2, 1956 to the new moon of January 1, 1957, a cycle of 29.75 days.