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The Moon on Thursday, December 31, 1964: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 5.0% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 14°

Moon age

27.4days

Moon phase on December 31, 1964Waning Crescent

Thursday 31 December 1964405,113 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 31, 1964, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 5.0% of its visible face lit, 27.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

5.0%Illumination at noon UTC
27.4 dMoon age
405,113 km251,726 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (14°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 31, 1964 is on Saturday, December 19, 1964 at 02:41 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 2, 1965 at 21:07 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around December 31

More about this date

Thursday, December 31, 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.