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The Moon on Thursday, December 21, 1995: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.7% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 20°

Moon age

28.8days

Moon phase on December 21, 1995Waning Crescent

Thursday 21 December 1995357,643 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 21, 1995, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.7% of its visible face lit, 28.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.7%Illumination at noon UTC
28.8 dMoon age
357,643 km222,229 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (21°)
33.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 21, 1995 is on Thursday, December 7, 1995 at 01:27 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 22, 1995 at 02:22 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around December 21

More about this date

Thursday, December 21, 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.