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The Moon on Tuesday, December 31, 1918: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 3.5% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 17°

Moon age

27.9days

Moon phase on December 31, 1918Waning Crescent

Tuesday 31 December 1918394,941 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 31, 1918, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.5% of its visible face lit, 27.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.5%Illumination at noon UTC
27.9 dMoon age
394,941 km245,405 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (17°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 31, 1918 is on Tuesday, December 17, 1918 at 19:17 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 2, 1919 at 08:24 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around December 31

More about this date

Tuesday, December 31, 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.