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The Moon on Thursday, December 5, 1912: Waning Crescent, 11% lit

Waning · 11.1% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 04°

Moon age

26.4days

Moon phase on December 5, 1912Waning Crescent

Thursday 5 December 1912381,224 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 5, 1912, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 11.1% of its visible face lit, 26.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

11.1%Illumination at noon UTC
26.4 dMoon age
381,224 km236,882 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (4°)
31.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 5, 1912 is on Sunday, November 24, 1912 at 16:12 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 8, 1912 at 17:07 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, December 1, 191211:05
New Moon (after)Sunday, December 8, 191217:07

The Moon around December 5

More about this date

Thursday, December 5, 1912 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 9, 1912 to the new moon of December 8, 1912, a cycle of 29.63 days.