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The Moon on Tuesday, December 24, 1957: Waxing Crescent, 11% lit

Waxing · 11.0% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 10°

Moon age

3.2days

Moon phase on December 24, 1957Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 24 December 1957396,763 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 24, 1957, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 11.0% of its visible face lit, 3.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

11.0%Illumination at noon UTC
3.2 dMoon age
396,763 km246,537 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (11°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 24, 1957 is on Sunday, January 5, 1958 at 20:09 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 21, 1957 at 06:12 UTC, 3 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 24

More about this date

Tuesday, December 24, 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.