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The Moon on Thursday, December 19, 1957: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 3.7% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 05°

Moon age

27.8days

Moon phase on December 19, 1957Waning Crescent

Thursday 19 December 1957377,551 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 19, 1957, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.7% of its visible face lit, 27.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.7%Illumination at noon UTC
27.8 dMoon age
377,551 km234,599 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (5°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 19, 1957 is on Saturday, December 7, 1957 at 06:16 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 21, 1957 at 06:12 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, December 14, 195705:45
New Moon (after)Saturday, December 21, 195706:12

The Moon around December 19

More about this date

Thursday, December 19, 1957 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 21, 1957 to the new moon of December 21, 1957, a cycle of 29.58 days.