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The Moon on Tuesday, December 3, 1991: Waning Crescent, 7% lit

Waning · 7.1% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 10°

Moon age

27.0days

Moon phase on December 3, 1991Waning Crescent

Tuesday 3 December 1991392,100 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 3, 1991, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 7.1% of its visible face lit, 27.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

7.1%Illumination at noon UTC
27.0 dMoon age
392,100 km243,640 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (10°)
30.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 3, 1991 is on Thursday, November 21, 1991 at 22:56 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 6, 1991 at 03:57 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, November 28, 199115:21
New Moon (after)Friday, December 6, 199103:57

The Moon around December 3

More about this date

Tuesday, December 3, 1991 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 6, 1991 to the new moon of December 6, 1991, a cycle of 29.70 days.