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The Moon on Friday, December 21, 1900: Waning Crescent, 0% lit

Waning · 0.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 23°

Moon age

29.2days

Moon phase on December 21, 1900Waning Crescent

Friday 21 December 1900388,804 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 21, 1900, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.3% of its visible face lit, 29.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.3%Illumination at noon UTC
29.2 dMoon age
388,804 km241,591 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (23°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 21, 1900 is on Saturday, January 5, 1901 at 00:13 UTC, 15 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 22, 1900 at 00:01 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, December 13, 190022:42
New Moon (after)Saturday, December 22, 190000:01

The Moon around December 21

More about this date

Friday, December 21, 1900 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 22, 1900 to the new moon of December 22, 1900, a cycle of 29.70 days.