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The Moon on Tuesday, December 2, 1975: Waning Crescent, 0% lit

Waning · 0.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 02°

Moon age

29.0days

Moon phase on December 2, 1975Waning Crescent

Tuesday 2 December 1975369,591 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 2, 1975, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.4% of its visible face lit, 29.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.4%Illumination at noon UTC
29.0 dMoon age
369,591 km229,653 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (3°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 2, 1975 is on Tuesday, November 18, 1975 at 22:28 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, December 3, 1975 at 00:50 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, November 26, 197506:52
New Moon (after)Wednesday, December 3, 197500:50

The Moon around December 2

More about this date

Tuesday, December 2, 1975 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 3, 1975 to the new moon of December 3, 1975, a cycle of 29.49 days.