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The Moon on Monday, December 29, 1975: Waning Crescent, 11% lit

Waning · 11.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 27°

Moon age

26.5days

Moon phase on December 29, 1975Waning Crescent

Monday 29 December 1975373,264 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, December 29, 1975, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 11.4% of its visible face lit, 26.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

11.4%Illumination at noon UTC
26.5 dMoon age
373,264 km231,935 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (28°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 29, 1975 is on Thursday, December 18, 1975 at 14:40 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 1, 1976 at 14:40 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, December 25, 197514:52
New Moon (after)Thursday, January 1, 197614:40

The Moon around December 29

More about this date

Monday, December 29, 1975 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 3, 1975 to the new moon of January 1, 1976, a cycle of 29.58 days.