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The Moon on Thursday, December 31, 1992: Waxing Crescent, 44% lit

Waxing · 43.9% lit · ♈︎ Aries 02°

Moon age

7.5days

Moon phase on December 31, 1992Waxing Crescent

Thursday 31 December 1992403,056 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 31, 1992, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 43.9% of its visible face lit, 7.5 days after the new moon and growing each night.

43.9%Illumination at noon UTC
7.5 dMoon age
403,056 km250,447 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (3°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 31, 1992 is on Friday, January 8, 1993 at 12:37 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 24, 1992 at 00:43 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, December 24, 199200:43
First Quarter (after)Friday, January 1, 199303:39

The Moon around December 31

More about this date

Thursday, December 31, 1992 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 24, 1992 to the new moon of January 22, 1993, a cycle of 29.74 days.