What was the lunar phase on February 12, 1956 at 4:00 A.M. Philippines

Hi there,

I checked two different online moon phase resources, and they both
return a verdict of New Moon.


MoonPhaseCalendar.com
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time: ad1956-feb-12   04:00:00 UT+08h00m
                  day of week: sun
                          MJD: +00035514.833333
                           JD: +02435515.333333
                            t: -00016395.166667
                mean lunation: +000410.01171090
              mean moon phase: 004.21593°
                            ~ new moon
   ecliptic longitude of moon: 321.4°
    ecliptic latitude of moon: 04.6°
  horizontal parallax of moon: 00.916°
  geocentric distance of moon: 399036 km
    ecliptic longitude of sun: 322.1°
     ecliptic latitude of sun: 00.0°
   geocentric distance of sun: 147662885 km
ecliptic longitude difference: 359.3°

http://www.moonphasecalendar.com/cgi-bin/moon_phase_calculator.cgi?time=ad1956-feb-12+++04%3A00%3A00+UT%2B08h00m


US Naval Observatory
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They say New Moon occured at Feb 11 1956,  21:38 
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/aa_moonphases.pl?year=1956&ZZZ=END

They use UT (Universal Time), and the Philippines is 8 hours ahead, so
that converts to 05:38,  Feb 12 1956.


Google keywords: moon almanac


Best wishes,
robertskelton-ga