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The Moon on Tuesday, December 15, 1914: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 4.0% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 00°

Moon age

27.8days

Moon phase on December 15, 1914Waning Crescent

Tuesday 15 December 1914360,530 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 15, 1914, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.0% of its visible face lit, 27.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.0%Illumination at noon UTC
27.8 dMoon age
360,530 km224,023 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (0°)
33.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 15, 1914 is on Wednesday, December 2, 1914 at 18:20 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 17, 1914 at 02:35 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, December 10, 191411:32
New Moon (after)Thursday, December 17, 191402:35

The Moon around December 15

More about this date

Tuesday, December 15, 1914 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 17, 1914 to the new moon of December 17, 1914, a cycle of 29.44 days.