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The Moon on Wednesday, December 5, 1934: Waning Crescent, 2% lit

Waning · 2.1% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 26°

Moon age

28.3days

Moon phase on December 5, 1934Waning Crescent

Wednesday 5 December 1934374,264 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 5, 1934, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 2.1% of its visible face lit, 28.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

2.1%Illumination at noon UTC
28.3 dMoon age
374,264 km232,557 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (27°)
31.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 5, 1934 is on Wednesday, November 21, 1934 at 04:26 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 6, 1934 at 17:25 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, November 29, 193405:39
New Moon (after)Thursday, December 6, 193417:25

The Moon around December 5

More about this date

Wednesday, December 5, 1934 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 7, 1934 to the new moon of December 6, 1934, a cycle of 29.53 days.