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The Moon on Saturday, December 31, 1994: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 1.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 26°

Moon age

28.5days

Moon phase on December 31, 1994Waning Crescent

Saturday 31 December 1994360,726 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, December 31, 1994, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.4% of its visible face lit, 28.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.4%Illumination at noon UTC
28.5 dMoon age
360,726 km224,145 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (26°)
33.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 31, 1994 is on Sunday, December 18, 1994 at 02:17 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 1, 1995 at 10:56 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around December 31

More about this date

Saturday, December 31, 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.