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The Moon on Tuesday, December 31, 1957: Waxing Gibbous, 71% lit

Waxing · 71.4% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 04°

Moon age

10.2days

Moon phase on December 31, 1957Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 31 December 1957397,436 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 31, 1957, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 71.4% of its visible face lit, 10.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

71.4%Illumination at noon UTC
10.2 dMoon age
397,436 km246,955 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (5°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 31, 1957 is on Sunday, January 5, 1958 at 20:09 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 21, 1957 at 06:12 UTC, 10 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 31

More about this date

Tuesday, December 31, 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.