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The Moon on Friday, December 22, 1905: Waning Crescent, 18% lit

Waning · 18.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 09°

Moon age

25.8days

Moon phase on December 22, 1905Waning Crescent

Friday 22 December 1905364,723 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 22, 1905, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 18.2% of its visible face lit, 25.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

18.2%Illumination at noon UTC
25.8 dMoon age
364,723 km226,629 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (10°)
32.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 22, 1905 is on Monday, December 11, 1905 at 23:25 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, December 26, 1905 at 04:04 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, December 19, 190512:09
New Moon (after)Tuesday, December 26, 190504:04

The Moon around December 22

More about this date

Friday, December 22, 1905 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 26, 1905 to the new moon of December 26, 1905, a cycle of 29.47 days.