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The Moon on Friday, December 15, 1995: Last Quarter, 47% lit

Waning · 47.4% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 26°

Last Quarter at

05:31UTC

Moon phase on December 15, 1995Last Quarter

Friday 15 December 1995388,948 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 15, 1995, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 47.4% of its visible face lit, 22.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

47.4%Illumination at noon UTC
22.8 dMoon age
388,948 km241,681 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (26°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 15, 1995 is on Thursday, December 7, 1995 at 01:27 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 22, 1995 at 02:22 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, December 7, 199501:27
Last Quarter (this day)Friday, December 15, 199505:31
New Moon (after)Friday, December 22, 199502:22

The Moon around December 15

More about this date

Friday, December 15, 1995 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 22, 1995 to the new moon of December 22, 1995, a cycle of 29.44 days.