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The Moon on Thursday, December 9, 1920: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 06°

Moon age

28.8days

Moon phase on December 9, 1920Waning Crescent

Thursday 9 December 1920401,611 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 9, 1920, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.8% of its visible face lit, 28.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.8%Illumination at noon UTC
28.8 dMoon age
401,611 km249,549 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (7°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 9, 1920 is on Friday, November 26, 1920 at 01:42 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 10, 1920 at 10:04 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, December 2, 192016:29
New Moon (after)Friday, December 10, 192010:04

The Moon around December 9

More about this date

Thursday, December 9, 1920 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 10, 1920 to the new moon of December 10, 1920, a cycle of 29.75 days.