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The Moon on Tuesday, December 22, 1998: Waxing Crescent, 12% lit

Waxing · 12.4% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 11°

Moon age

3.6days

Moon phase on December 22, 1998Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 22 December 1998387,410 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 22, 1998, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 12.4% of its visible face lit, 3.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

12.4%Illumination at noon UTC
3.6 dMoon age
387,410 km240,726 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (12°)
30.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 22, 1998 is on Saturday, January 2, 1999 at 02:50 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 18, 1998 at 22:43 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, December 18, 199822:43
First Quarter (after)Saturday, December 26, 199810:46

The Moon around December 22

More about this date

Tuesday, December 22, 1998 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 18, 1998 to the new moon of January 17, 1999, a cycle of 29.71 days.