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The Moon on Tuesday, December 18, 1984: Waning Crescent, 20% lit

Waning · 19.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 04°

Moon age

25.5days

Moon phase on December 18, 1984Waning Crescent

Tuesday 18 December 1984368,383 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 18, 1984, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 19.5% of its visible face lit, 25.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

19.5%Illumination at noon UTC
25.5 dMoon age
368,383 km228,903 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (4°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 18, 1984 is on Saturday, December 8, 1984 at 10:54 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 22, 1984 at 11:47 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, December 15, 198415:25
New Moon (after)Saturday, December 22, 198411:47

The Moon around December 18

More about this date

Tuesday, December 18, 1984 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 22, 1984 to the new moon of December 22, 1984, a cycle of 29.53 days.