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The Moon on Sunday, December 15, 1963: Waning Crescent, 0% lit

Waning · 0.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 16°

Moon age

29.2days

Moon phase on December 15, 1963Waning Crescent

Sunday 15 December 1963404,665 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 15, 1963, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.4% of its visible face lit, 29.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.4%Illumination at noon UTC
29.2 dMoon age
404,665 km251,447 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (16°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 15, 1963 is on Saturday, November 30, 1963 at 23:54 UTC, 15 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 16, 1963 at 02:06 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around December 15

More about this date

Sunday, December 15, 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.