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The Moon on Tuesday, December 15, 1903: Waning Crescent, 12% lit

Waning · 11.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 12°

Moon age

26.3days

Moon phase on December 15, 1903Waning Crescent

Tuesday 15 December 1903386,444 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 15, 1903, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 11.7% of its visible face lit, 26.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

11.7%Illumination at noon UTC
26.3 dMoon age
386,444 km240,125 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (13°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 15, 1903 is on Friday, December 4, 1903 at 18:13 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 18, 1903 at 21:26 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, December 11, 190310:53
New Moon (after)Friday, December 18, 190321:26

The Moon around December 15

More about this date

Tuesday, December 15, 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.