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The Moon on Thursday, December 29, 1994: Waning Crescent, 12% lit

Waning · 12.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 26°

Moon age

26.5days

Moon phase on December 29, 1994Waning Crescent

Thursday 29 December 1994362,192 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 29, 1994, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 12.4% of its visible face lit, 26.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

12.4%Illumination at noon UTC
26.5 dMoon age
362,192 km225,056 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (26°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 29, 1994 is on Sunday, December 18, 1994 at 02:17 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 1, 1995 at 10:56 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, December 25, 199419:07
New Moon (after)Sunday, January 1, 199510:56

The Moon around December 29

More about this date

Thursday, December 29, 1994 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 2, 1994 to the new moon of January 1, 1995, a cycle of 29.46 days.