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The Moon on Wednesday, December 29, 1926: Waning Crescent, 29% lit

Waning · 28.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 02°

Moon age

24.2days

Moon phase on December 29, 1926Waning Crescent

Wednesday 29 December 1926397,934 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 29, 1926, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 28.8% of its visible face lit, 24.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

28.8%Illumination at noon UTC
24.2 dMoon age
397,934 km247,265 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (2°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 29, 1926 is on Sunday, December 19, 1926 at 06:09 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 3, 1927 at 20:28 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, December 27, 192604:59
New Moon (after)Monday, January 3, 192720:28

The Moon around December 29

More about this date

Wednesday, December 29, 1926 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 5, 1926 to the new moon of January 3, 1927, a cycle of 29.59 days.