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The Moon on Sunday, November 29, 1959: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 1.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 24°

Moon age

28.6days

Moon phase on November 29, 1959Waning Crescent

Sunday 29 November 1959357,711 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, November 29, 1959, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.3% of its visible face lit, 28.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.3%Illumination at noon UTC
28.6 dMoon age
357,711 km222,271 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (24°)
33.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 29, 1959 is on Sunday, November 15, 1959 at 09:42 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, November 30, 1959 at 08:46 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, November 23, 195913:03
New Moon (after)Monday, November 30, 195908:46

The Moon around November 29

More about this date

Sunday, November 29, 1959 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 31, 1959 to the new moon of November 30, 1959, a cycle of 29.42 days.