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The Moon on Wednesday, December 11, 1996: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 1.1% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 00°

Moon age

0.8days

Moon phase on December 11, 1996Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 11 December 1996366,160 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 11, 1996, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 1.1% of its visible face lit, 0.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

1.1%Illumination at noon UTC
0.8 dMoon age
366,160 km227,521 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (0°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 11, 1996 is on Tuesday, December 24, 1996 at 20:41 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, December 10, 1996 at 16:56 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, December 10, 199616:56
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, December 17, 199609:31

The Moon around December 11

More about this date

Wednesday, December 11, 1996 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 10, 1996 to the new moon of January 9, 1997, a cycle of 29.48 days.