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The Moon on Saturday, December 31, 1983: Waning Crescent, 7% lit

Waning · 7.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 07°

Moon age

27.0days

Moon phase on December 31, 1983Waning Crescent

Saturday 31 December 1983388,301 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, December 31, 1983, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 7.4% of its visible face lit, 27.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

7.4%Illumination at noon UTC
27.0 dMoon age
388,301 km241,279 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (8°)
30.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 31, 1983 is on Tuesday, December 20, 1983 at 02:00 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 3, 1984 at 05:16 UTC, 3 days later.

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

The Moon around December 31

More about this date

Saturday, December 31, 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.