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The Moon on Wednesday, December 25, 1957: Waxing Crescent, 18% lit

Waxing · 17.8% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 23°

Moon age

4.2days

Moon phase on December 25, 1957Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 25 December 1957400,143 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 25, 1957, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 17.8% of its visible face lit, 4.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

17.8%Illumination at noon UTC
4.2 dMoon age
400,143 km248,637 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (23°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 25, 1957 is on Sunday, January 5, 1958 at 20:09 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 21, 1957 at 06:12 UTC, 4 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 25

More about this date

Wednesday, December 25, 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.