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The Moon on Tuesday, December 22, 1992: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 2.5% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 12°

Moon age

28.1days

Moon phase on December 22, 1992Waning Crescent

Tuesday 22 December 1992386,162 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 22, 1992, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 2.5% of its visible face lit, 28.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

2.5%Illumination at noon UTC
28.1 dMoon age
386,162 km239,950 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (13°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 22, 1992 is on Wednesday, December 9, 1992 at 23:41 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 24, 1992 at 00:43 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around December 22

More about this date

Tuesday, December 22, 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.