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The Moon on Sunday, December 2, 1917: Waning Gibbous, 86% lit

Waning · 85.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 24°

Moon age

17.7days

Moon phase on December 2, 1917Waning Gibbous

Sunday 2 December 1917394,420 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 2, 1917, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 85.5% of its visible face lit, 17.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

85.5%Illumination at noon UTC
17.7 dMoon age
394,420 km245,081 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (25°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 2, 1917 is on Wednesday, November 28, 1917 at 18:41 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 14, 1917 at 09:17 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, November 28, 191718:41
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, December 6, 191714:14

The Moon around December 2

More about this date

Sunday, December 2, 1917 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 14, 1917 to the new moon of December 14, 1917, a cycle of 29.62 days.