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The Moon on Sunday, December 27, 1908: Waxing Crescent, 21% lit

Waxing · 20.5% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 29°

Moon age

4.0days

Moon phase on December 27, 1908Waxing Crescent

Sunday 27 December 1908366,564 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 27, 1908, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 20.5% of its visible face lit, 4.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

20.5%Illumination at noon UTC
4.0 dMoon age
366,564 km227,772 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (29°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 27, 1908 is on Wednesday, January 6, 1909 at 14:13 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, December 23, 1908 at 11:50 UTC, 4 days earlier.

The Moon around December 27

More about this date

Sunday, December 27, 1908 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 23, 1908 to the new moon of January 22, 1909, a cycle of 29.52 days.