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The Moon on Sunday, December 27, 1959: Waning Crescent, 8% lit

Waning · 8.1% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 02°

Moon age

27.1days

Moon phase on December 27, 1959Waning Crescent

Sunday 27 December 1959359,940 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 27, 1959, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 8.1% of its visible face lit, 27.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

8.1%Illumination at noon UTC
27.1 dMoon age
359,940 km223,656 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (2°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 27, 1959 is on Tuesday, December 15, 1959 at 04:49 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, December 29, 1959 at 19:09 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, December 23, 195903:28
New Moon (after)Tuesday, December 29, 195919:09

The Moon around December 27

More about this date

Sunday, December 27, 1959 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 30, 1959 to the new moon of December 29, 1959, a cycle of 29.43 days.