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The Moon on Tuesday, December 9, 1975: Waxing Crescent, 40% lit

Waxing · 39.6% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 04°

Moon age

6.5days

Moon phase on December 9, 1975Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 9 December 1975400,995 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 9, 1975, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 39.6% of its visible face lit, 6.5 days after the new moon and growing each night.

39.6%Illumination at noon UTC
6.5 dMoon age
400,995 km249,167 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (5°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 9, 1975 is on Thursday, December 18, 1975 at 14:40 UTC, 9 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, December 3, 1975 at 00:50 UTC, 6 days earlier.

The Moon around December 9

More about this date

Tuesday, December 9, 1975 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 3, 1975 to the new moon of January 1, 1976, a cycle of 29.58 days.