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The Moon on Wednesday, December 19, 1973: Waning Crescent, 23% lit

Waning · 22.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 00°

Moon age

24.7days

Moon phase on December 19, 1973Waning Crescent

Wednesday 19 December 1973393,754 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 19, 1973, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 22.8% of its visible face lit, 24.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

22.8%Illumination at noon UTC
24.7 dMoon age
393,754 km244,668 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (1°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 19, 1973 is on Monday, December 10, 1973 at 01:35 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 24, 1973 at 15:07 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, December 16, 197317:13
New Moon (after)Monday, December 24, 197315:07

The Moon around December 19

More about this date

Wednesday, December 19, 1973 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 24, 1973 to the new moon of December 24, 1973, a cycle of 29.80 days.