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The Moon on Tuesday, December 21, 1965: Waning Crescent, 2% lit

Waning · 1.9% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 13°

Moon age

28.3days

Moon phase on December 21, 1965Waning Crescent

Tuesday 21 December 1965393,734 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 21, 1965, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.9% of its visible face lit, 28.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.9%Illumination at noon UTC
28.3 dMoon age
393,734 km244,655 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (14°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 21, 1965 is on Wednesday, December 8, 1965 at 17:21 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, December 22, 1965 at 21:03 UTC, 1 day later.

The Moon around December 21

More about this date

Tuesday, December 21, 1965 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 23, 1965 to the new moon of December 22, 1965, a cycle of 29.70 days.