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The Moon on Sunday, December 16, 1906: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 0.8% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 03°

Moon age

0.7days

Moon phase on December 16, 1906Waxing Crescent

Sunday 16 December 1906357,559 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 16, 1906, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.8% of its visible face lit, 0.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.8%Illumination at noon UTC
0.7 dMoon age
357,559 km222,177 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (4°)
33.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 16, 1906 is on Sunday, December 30, 1906 at 18:44 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 15, 1906 at 18:54 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, December 15, 190618:54
First Quarter (after)Saturday, December 22, 190615:04

The Moon around December 16

More about this date

Sunday, December 16, 1906 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 15, 1906 to the new moon of January 14, 1907, a cycle of 29.46 days.