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The Moon on Sunday, December 30, 1956: Waning Crescent, 2% lit

Waning · 2.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 21°

Moon age

28.2days

Moon phase on December 30, 1956Waning Crescent

Sunday 30 December 1956398,361 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 30, 1956, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 2.4% of its visible face lit, 28.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

2.4%Illumination at noon UTC
28.2 dMoon age
398,361 km247,530 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (21°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 30, 1956 is on Monday, December 17, 1956 at 19:06 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 1, 1957 at 02:14 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around December 30

More about this date

Sunday, December 30, 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.