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The Moon on Wednesday, November 25, 1981: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 1.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 21°

Moon age

28.7days

Moon phase on November 25, 1981Waning Crescent

Wednesday 25 November 1981406,032 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, November 25, 1981, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.3% of its visible face lit, 28.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.3%Illumination at noon UTC
28.7 dMoon age
406,032 km252,296 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (21°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 25, 1981 is on Wednesday, November 11, 1981 at 22:27 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, November 26, 1981 at 14:39 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, November 18, 198114:54
New Moon (after)Thursday, November 26, 198114:39

The Moon around November 25

More about this date

Wednesday, November 25, 1981 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 27, 1981 to the new moon of November 26, 1981, a cycle of 29.77 days.