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The Moon on Sunday, December 24, 1905: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 4.1% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 09°

Moon age

27.8days

Moon phase on December 24, 1905Waning Crescent

Sunday 24 December 1905363,624 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 24, 1905, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.1% of its visible face lit, 27.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.1%Illumination at noon UTC
27.8 dMoon age
363,624 km225,946 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (9°)
32.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 24, 1905 is on Monday, December 11, 1905 at 23:25 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, December 26, 1905 at 04:04 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around December 24

More about this date

Sunday, December 24, 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.