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The Moon on Sunday, December 8, 1991: Waxing Crescent, 5% lit

Waxing · 5.0% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 11°

Moon age

2.3days

Moon phase on December 8, 1991Waxing Crescent

Sunday 8 December 1991404,712 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 8, 1991, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 5.0% of its visible face lit, 2.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

5.0%Illumination at noon UTC
2.3 dMoon age
404,712 km251,476 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (12°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 8, 1991 is on Saturday, December 21, 1991 at 10:23 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 6, 1991 at 03:57 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, December 6, 199103:57
First Quarter (after)Saturday, December 14, 199109:32

The Moon around December 8

More about this date

Sunday, December 8, 1991 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 6, 1991 to the new moon of January 4, 1992, a cycle of 29.80 days.