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The Moon on Wednesday, December 23, 1964: Waning Gibbous, 74% lit

Waning · 74.4% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 02°

Moon age

19.4days

Moon phase on December 23, 1964Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 23 December 1964370,622 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 23, 1964, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 74.4% of its visible face lit, 19.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

74.4%Illumination at noon UTC
19.4 dMoon age
370,622 km230,294 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (3°)
32.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 23, 1964 is on Saturday, December 19, 1964 at 02:41 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 2, 1965 at 21:07 UTC, 10 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, December 19, 196402:41
Last Quarter (after)Friday, December 25, 196419:27

The Moon around December 23

More about this date

Wednesday, December 23, 1964 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 4, 1964 to the new moon of January 2, 1965, a cycle of 29.83 days.