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The Moon on Monday, December 6, 1999: Waning Crescent, 2% lit

Waning · 2.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 28°

Moon age

28.3days

Moon phase on December 6, 1999Waning Crescent

Monday 6 December 1999405,388 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, December 6, 1999, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 2.0% of its visible face lit, 28.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

2.0%Illumination at noon UTC
28.3 dMoon age
405,388 km251,897 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (28°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 6, 1999 is on Tuesday, November 23, 1999 at 07:04 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, December 7, 1999 at 22:32 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, November 29, 199923:19
New Moon (after)Tuesday, December 7, 199922:32

The Moon around December 6

More about this date

Monday, December 6, 1999 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 8, 1999 to the new moon of December 7, 1999, a cycle of 29.78 days.