Skip to content
The Moon on Sunday, December 20, 1992: Waning Crescent, 13% lit

Waning · 13.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 16°

Moon age

26.1days

Moon phase on December 20, 1992Waning Crescent

Sunday 20 December 1992379,848 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 20, 1992, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 13.3% of its visible face lit, 26.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

13.3%Illumination at noon UTC
26.1 dMoon age
379,848 km236,026 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (16°)
31.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 20, 1992 is on Wednesday, December 9, 1992 at 23:41 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 24, 1992 at 00:43 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, December 16, 199219:13
New Moon (after)Thursday, December 24, 199200:43

The Moon around December 20

More about this date

Sunday, December 20, 1992 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 24, 1992 to the new moon of December 24, 1992, a cycle of 29.65 days.