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The Moon on Wednesday, December 11, 1985: Waning Crescent, 0% lit

Waning · 0.5% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 11°

Moon age

28.9days

Moon phase on December 11, 1985Waning Crescent

Wednesday 11 December 1985358,881 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 11, 1985, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.5% of its visible face lit, 28.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.5%Illumination at noon UTC
28.9 dMoon age
358,881 km222,998 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (12°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 11, 1985 is on Wednesday, November 27, 1985 at 12:42 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 12, 1985 at 00:55 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, December 5, 198509:01
New Moon (after)Thursday, December 12, 198500:55

The Moon around December 11

More about this date

Wednesday, December 11, 1985 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 12, 1985 to the new moon of December 12, 1985, a cycle of 29.44 days.