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The Moon on Sunday, December 6, 1903: Waning Gibbous, 96% lit

Waning · 95.7% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 06°

Moon age

17.3days

Moon phase on December 6, 1903Waning Gibbous

Sunday 6 December 1903365,115 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 6, 1903, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 95.7% of its visible face lit, 17.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.7%Illumination at noon UTC
17.3 dMoon age
365,115 km226,872 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (7°)
32.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 6, 1903 is on Friday, December 4, 1903 at 18:13 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 18, 1903 at 21:26 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, December 4, 190318:13
Last Quarter (after)Friday, December 11, 190310:53

The Moon around December 6

More about this date

Sunday, December 6, 1903 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 19, 1903 to the new moon of December 18, 1903, a cycle of 29.68 days.