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The Moon on Sunday, December 27, 1903: First Quarter, 54% lit

Waxing · 54.0% lit · ♈︎ Aries 09°

First Quarter at

02:23UTC

Moon phase on December 27, 1903First Quarter

Sunday 27 December 1903395,917 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 27, 1903, the Moon was a First Quarter: 54.0% of its visible face lit, 8.6 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

54.0%Illumination at noon UTC
8.6 dMoon age
395,917 km246,011 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (9°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 27, 1903 is on Sunday, January 3, 1904 at 05:47 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 18, 1903 at 21:26 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, December 18, 190321:26
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, December 27, 190302:23
Full Moon (after)Sunday, January 3, 190405:47

The Moon around December 27

More about this date

Sunday, December 27, 1903 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 18, 1903 to the new moon of January 17, 1904, a cycle of 29.76 days.