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The Moon on Sunday, December 29, 1918: Waning Crescent, 14% lit

Waning · 14.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 22°

Moon age

25.9days

Moon phase on December 29, 1918Waning Crescent

Sunday 29 December 1918401,368 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 29, 1918, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 14.2% of its visible face lit, 25.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

14.2%Illumination at noon UTC
25.9 dMoon age
401,368 km249,399 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (23°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 29, 1918 is on Tuesday, December 17, 1918 at 19:17 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 2, 1919 at 08:24 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, December 25, 191806:30
New Moon (after)Thursday, January 2, 191908:24

The Moon around December 29

More about this date

Sunday, December 29, 1918 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 3, 1918 to the new moon of January 2, 1919, a cycle of 29.71 days.