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The Moon on Friday, December 30, 1983: Waning Crescent, 14% lit

Waning · 13.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 24°

Moon age

26.0days

Moon phase on December 30, 1983Waning Crescent

Friday 30 December 1983384,926 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 30, 1983, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 13.8% of its visible face lit, 26.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

13.8%Illumination at noon UTC
26.0 dMoon age
384,926 km239,182 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (25°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 30, 1983 is on Tuesday, December 20, 1983 at 02:00 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 3, 1984 at 05:16 UTC, 4 days later.

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

The Moon around December 30

More about this date

Friday, December 30, 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.