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The Moon on Friday, December 25, 1981: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 23°

Moon age

28.9days

Moon phase on December 25, 1981Waning Crescent

Friday 25 December 1981405,476 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 25, 1981, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.8% of its visible face lit, 28.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.8%Illumination at noon UTC
28.9 dMoon age
405,476 km251,951 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (24°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 25, 1981 is on Friday, December 11, 1981 at 08:41 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 26, 1981 at 10:10 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, December 18, 198105:47
New Moon (after)Saturday, December 26, 198110:10

The Moon around December 25

More about this date

Friday, December 25, 1981 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 26, 1981 to the new moon of December 26, 1981, a cycle of 29.81 days.