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The Moon on Wednesday, December 22, 1915: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.1% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 09°

Moon age

15.7days

Moon phase on December 22, 1915Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 22 December 1915405,756 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 22, 1915, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.1% of its visible face lit, 15.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.1%Illumination at noon UTC
15.7 dMoon age
405,756 km252,125 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (10°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 22, 1915 is on Tuesday, December 21, 1915 at 12:52 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, January 5, 1916 at 04:45 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, December 21, 191512:52
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, December 29, 191512:59

The Moon around December 22

More about this date

Wednesday, December 22, 1915 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 6, 1915 to the new moon of January 5, 1916, a cycle of 29.45 days.