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The Moon on Tuesday, December 30, 1975: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 5.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 11°

Moon age

27.5days

Moon phase on December 30, 1975Waning Crescent

Tuesday 30 December 1975375,536 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 30, 1975, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 5.3% of its visible face lit, 27.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

5.3%Illumination at noon UTC
27.5 dMoon age
375,536 km233,347 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (12°)
31.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 30, 1975 is on Thursday, December 18, 1975 at 14:40 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 1, 1976 at 14:40 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around December 30

More about this date

Tuesday, December 30, 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.