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The Moon on Sunday, December 5, 1915: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 2.6% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 24°

Moon age

28.2days

Moon phase on December 5, 1915Waning Crescent

Sunday 5 December 1915359,213 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 5, 1915, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 2.6% of its visible face lit, 28.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

2.6%Illumination at noon UTC
28.2 dMoon age
359,213 km223,205 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (24°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 5, 1915 is on Sunday, November 21, 1915 at 17:36 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 6, 1915 at 18:03 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, November 29, 191522:10
New Moon (after)Monday, December 6, 191518:03

The Moon around December 5

More about this date

Sunday, December 5, 1915 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 7, 1915 to the new moon of December 6, 1915, a cycle of 29.42 days.