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The Moon on Friday, December 13, 1963: Waning Crescent, 6% lit

Waning · 6.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 22°

Moon age

27.2days

Moon phase on December 13, 1963Waning Crescent

Friday 13 December 1963406,281 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 13, 1963, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 6.0% of its visible face lit, 27.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

6.0%Illumination at noon UTC
27.2 dMoon age
406,281 km252,451 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (23°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 13, 1963 is on Saturday, November 30, 1963 at 23:54 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 16, 1963 at 02:06 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, December 7, 196321:34
New Moon (after)Monday, December 16, 196302:06

The Moon around December 13

More about this date

Friday, December 13, 1963 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 16, 1963 to the new moon of December 16, 1963, a cycle of 29.80 days.