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The Moon on Monday, December 18, 1995: Waning Crescent, 18% lit

Waning · 17.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 06°

Moon age

25.8days

Moon phase on December 18, 1995Waning Crescent

Monday 18 December 1995370,394 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, December 18, 1995, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 17.8% of its visible face lit, 25.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

17.8%Illumination at noon UTC
25.8 dMoon age
370,394 km230,152 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (6°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 18, 1995 is on Thursday, December 7, 1995 at 01:27 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 22, 1995 at 02:22 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, December 15, 199505:31
New Moon (after)Friday, December 22, 199502:22

The Moon around December 18

More about this date

Monday, December 18, 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.