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The Moon on Monday, December 30, 1957: Waxing Gibbous, 62% lit

Waxing · 62.3% lit · ♈︎ Aries 22°

Moon age

9.2days

Moon phase on December 30, 1957Waxing Gibbous

Monday 30 December 1957400,942 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, December 30, 1957, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 62.3% of its visible face lit, 9.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

62.3%Illumination at noon UTC
9.2 dMoon age
400,942 km249,134 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (23°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 30, 1957 is on Sunday, January 5, 1958 at 20:09 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 21, 1957 at 06:12 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, December 29, 195704:52
Full Moon (after)Sunday, January 5, 195820:09

The Moon around December 30

More about this date

Monday, December 30, 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.