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The Moon on Wednesday, December 20, 1995: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 4.0% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 05°

Moon age

27.8days

Moon phase on December 20, 1995Waning Crescent

Wednesday 20 December 1995360,416 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 20, 1995, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.0% of its visible face lit, 27.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.0%Illumination at noon UTC
27.8 dMoon age
360,416 km223,952 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (5°)
33.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 20, 1995 is on Thursday, December 7, 1995 at 01:27 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 22, 1995 at 02:22 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around December 20

More about this date

Wednesday, December 20, 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.