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The Moon on Tuesday, December 30, 1958: Waning Gibbous, 80% lit

Waning · 80.5% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 00°

Moon age

19.8days

Moon phase on December 30, 1958Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 30 December 1958379,483 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 30, 1958, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 80.5% of its visible face lit, 19.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

80.5%Illumination at noon UTC
19.8 dMoon age
379,483 km235,800 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (1°)
31.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 30, 1958 is on Friday, December 26, 1958 at 03:54 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 9, 1959 at 05:34 UTC, 10 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, December 26, 195803:54
Last Quarter (after)Friday, January 2, 195910:51

The Moon around December 30

More about this date

Tuesday, December 30, 1958 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 10, 1958 to the new moon of January 9, 1959, a cycle of 29.51 days.