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The Moon on Sunday, December 22, 1957: Waxing Crescent, 2% lit

Waxing · 1.9% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 15°

Moon age

1.2days

Moon phase on December 22, 1957Waxing Crescent

Sunday 22 December 1957388,677 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 22, 1957, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 1.9% of its visible face lit, 1.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

1.9%Illumination at noon UTC
1.2 dMoon age
388,677 km241,513 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (15°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 22, 1957 is on Sunday, January 5, 1958 at 20:09 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 21, 1957 at 06:12 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, December 21, 195706:12
First Quarter (after)Sunday, December 29, 195704:52

The Moon around December 22

More about this date

Sunday, December 22, 1957 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 21, 1957 to the new moon of January 19, 1958, a cycle of 29.66 days.