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The Moon on Friday, December 22, 1916: Waning Crescent, 8% lit

Waning · 7.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 28°

Moon age

27.1days

Moon phase on December 22, 1916Waning Crescent

Friday 22 December 1916369,728 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 22, 1916, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 7.8% of its visible face lit, 27.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

7.8%Illumination at noon UTC
27.1 dMoon age
369,728 km229,738 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (28°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 22, 1916 is on Saturday, December 9, 1916 at 12:44 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 24, 1916 at 20:31 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, December 17, 191618:06
New Moon (after)Sunday, December 24, 191620:31

The Moon around December 22

More about this date

Friday, December 22, 1916 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 25, 1916 to the new moon of December 24, 1916, a cycle of 29.49 days.