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The Moon on Tuesday, December 10, 1974: Waning Crescent, 11% lit

Waning · 10.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 09°

Moon age

26.5days

Moon phase on December 10, 1974Waning Crescent

Tuesday 10 December 1974381,861 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 10, 1974, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 10.8% of its visible face lit, 26.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

10.8%Illumination at noon UTC
26.5 dMoon age
381,861 km237,278 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (10°)
31.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 10, 1974 is on Friday, November 29, 1974 at 15:10 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 13, 1974 at 16:25 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, December 6, 197410:10
New Moon (after)Friday, December 13, 197416:25

The Moon around December 10

More about this date

Tuesday, December 10, 1974 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 14, 1974 to the new moon of December 13, 1974, a cycle of 29.65 days.