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The Moon on Sunday, December 19, 1971: Waxing Crescent, 3% lit

Waxing · 3.1% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 17°

Moon age

1.7days

Moon phase on December 19, 1971Waxing Crescent

Sunday 19 December 1971386,576 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 19, 1971, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 3.1% of its visible face lit, 1.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

3.1%Illumination at noon UTC
1.7 dMoon age
386,576 km240,207 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (17°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 19, 1971 is on Friday, December 31, 1971 at 20:20 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 17, 1971 at 19:03 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, December 17, 197119:03
First Quarter (after)Saturday, December 25, 197101:35

The Moon around December 19

More about this date

Sunday, December 19, 1971 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 17, 1971 to the new moon of January 16, 1972, a cycle of 29.66 days.