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The Moon on Thursday, December 29, 1983: Waning Crescent, 22% lit

Waning · 22.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 11°

Moon age

25.0days

Moon phase on December 29, 1983Waning Crescent

Thursday 29 December 1983381,524 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 29, 1983, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 22.0% of its visible face lit, 25.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

22.0%Illumination at noon UTC
25.0 dMoon age
381,524 km237,068 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (12°)
31.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 29, 1983 is on Tuesday, December 20, 1983 at 02:00 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 3, 1984 at 05:16 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, December 26, 198318:53
New Moon (after)Tuesday, January 3, 198405:16

The Moon around December 29

More about this date

Thursday, December 29, 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.