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The Moon on Tuesday, December 8, 1931: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 1.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 02°

Moon age

28.5days

Moon phase on December 8, 1931Waning Crescent

Tuesday 8 December 1931366,958 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 8, 1931, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.3% of its visible face lit, 28.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.3%Illumination at noon UTC
28.5 dMoon age
366,958 km228,017 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (3°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 8, 1931 is on Wednesday, November 25, 1931 at 07:10 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, December 9, 1931 at 10:16 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, December 2, 193116:51
New Moon (after)Wednesday, December 9, 193110:16

The Moon around December 8

More about this date

Tuesday, December 8, 1931 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 9, 1931 to the new moon of December 9, 1931, a cycle of 29.47 days.