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The Moon on Tuesday, December 29, 1964: Waning Crescent, 16% lit

Waning · 16.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 20°

Moon age

25.4days

Moon phase on December 29, 1964Waning Crescent

Tuesday 29 December 1964400,778 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 29, 1964, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 16.3% of its visible face lit, 25.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

16.3%Illumination at noon UTC
25.4 dMoon age
400,778 km249,032 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (20°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 29, 1964 is on Saturday, December 19, 1964 at 02:41 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 2, 1965 at 21:07 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, December 25, 196419:27
New Moon (after)Saturday, January 2, 196521:07

The Moon around December 29

More about this date

Tuesday, December 29, 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.