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The Moon on Saturday, December 29, 1956: Waning Crescent, 6% lit

Waning · 6.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 08°

Moon age

27.2days

Moon phase on December 29, 1956Waning Crescent

Saturday 29 December 1956395,367 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, December 29, 1956, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 6.3% of its visible face lit, 27.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

6.3%Illumination at noon UTC
27.2 dMoon age
395,367 km245,670 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (9°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 29, 1956 is on Monday, December 17, 1956 at 19:06 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 1, 1957 at 02:14 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, December 24, 195610:10
New Moon (after)Tuesday, January 1, 195702:14

The Moon around December 29

More about this date

Saturday, December 29, 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.