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The Moon on Friday, December 26, 1986: Waning Crescent, 28% lit

Waning · 28.1% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 00°

Moon age

24.8days

Moon phase on December 26, 1986Waning Crescent

Friday 26 December 1986373,253 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 26, 1986, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 28.1% of its visible face lit, 24.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

28.1%Illumination at noon UTC
24.8 dMoon age
373,253 km231,928 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (1°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 26, 1986 is on Tuesday, December 16, 1986 at 07:05 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, December 31, 1986 at 03:10 UTC, 5 days later.

The Moon around December 26

More about this date

Friday, December 26, 1986 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 1, 1986 to the new moon of December 31, 1986, a cycle of 29.44 days.