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The Moon on Tuesday, December 30, 1986: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 29°

Moon age

28.8days

Moon phase on December 30, 1986Waning Crescent

Tuesday 30 December 1986356,832 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 30, 1986, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.8% of its visible face lit, 28.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.8%Illumination at noon UTC
28.8 dMoon age
356,832 km221,725 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (29°)
33.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 30, 1986 is on Tuesday, December 16, 1986 at 07:05 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, December 31, 1986 at 03:10 UTC, 1 day later.

The Moon around December 30

More about this date

Tuesday, December 30, 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.