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The Moon on Sunday, December 11, 1983: Waxing Crescent, 40% lit

Waxing · 40.3% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 07°

Moon age

7.0days

Moon phase on December 11, 1983Waxing Crescent

Sunday 11 December 1983404,534 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 11, 1983, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 40.3% of its visible face lit, 7.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

40.3%Illumination at noon UTC
7.0 dMoon age
404,534 km251,366 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (7°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 11, 1983 is on Tuesday, December 20, 1983 at 02:00 UTC, 9 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 4, 1983 at 12:26 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, December 4, 198312:26
First Quarter (after)Monday, December 12, 198313:09

The Moon around December 11

More about this date

Sunday, December 11, 1983 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 4, 1983 to the new moon of January 3, 1984, a cycle of 29.70 days.