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The Moon on Tuesday, December 31, 1991: Waning Crescent, 18% lit

Waning · 17.6% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 19°

Moon age

25.3days

Moon phase on December 31, 1991Waning Crescent

Tuesday 31 December 1991395,480 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 31, 1991, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 17.6% of its visible face lit, 25.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

17.6%Illumination at noon UTC
25.3 dMoon age
395,480 km245,740 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (20°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 31, 1991 is on Saturday, December 21, 1991 at 10:23 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 4, 1992 at 23:10 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, December 28, 199101:55
New Moon (after)Saturday, January 4, 199223:10

The Moon around December 31

More about this date

Tuesday, December 31, 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.