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The Moon on Sunday, December 21, 1919: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.9% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 18°

Moon age

28.9days

Moon phase on December 21, 1919Waning Crescent

Sunday 21 December 1919405,661 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 21, 1919, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.9% of its visible face lit, 28.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.9%Illumination at noon UTC
28.9 dMoon age
405,661 km252,066 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (18°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 21, 1919 is on Sunday, December 7, 1919 at 10:03 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 22, 1919 at 10:55 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, December 14, 191906:02
New Moon (after)Monday, December 22, 191910:55

The Moon around December 21

More about this date

Sunday, December 21, 1919 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 22, 1919 to the new moon of December 22, 1919, a cycle of 29.82 days.