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The Moon on Tuesday, December 22, 1908: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 1.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 17°

Moon age

28.6days

Moon phase on December 22, 1908Waning Crescent

Tuesday 22 December 1908375,819 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 22, 1908, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.3% of its visible face lit, 28.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.3%Illumination at noon UTC
28.6 dMoon age
375,819 km233,523 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (17°)
31.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 22, 1908 is on Monday, December 7, 1908 at 21:44 UTC, 15 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, December 23, 1908 at 11:50 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, December 15, 190821:12
New Moon (after)Wednesday, December 23, 190811:50

The Moon around December 22

More about this date

Tuesday, December 22, 1908 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 23, 1908 to the new moon of December 23, 1908, a cycle of 29.58 days.