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The Moon on Tuesday, December 11, 1956: Waxing Gibbous, 60% lit

Waxing · 59.9% lit · ♈︎ Aries 00°

Moon age

9.2days

Moon phase on December 11, 1956Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 11 December 1956396,207 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 11, 1956, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 59.9% of its visible face lit, 9.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

59.9%Illumination at noon UTC
9.2 dMoon age
396,207 km246,191 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (1°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 11, 1956 is on Monday, December 17, 1956 at 19:06 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 2, 1956 at 08:13 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, December 10, 195611:51
Full Moon (after)Monday, December 17, 195619:06

The Moon around December 11

More about this date

Tuesday, December 11, 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.