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The Moon on Wednesday, December 8, 1999: Waxing Crescent, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 22°

Moon age

0.6days

Moon phase on December 8, 1999Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 8 December 1999406,612 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 8, 1999, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.4% of its visible face lit, 0.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.4%Illumination at noon UTC
0.6 dMoon age
406,612 km252,657 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (22°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 8, 1999 is on Wednesday, December 22, 1999 at 17:31 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, December 7, 1999 at 22:32 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, December 7, 199922:32
First Quarter (after)Thursday, December 16, 199900:50

The Moon around December 8

More about this date

Wednesday, December 8, 1999 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 7, 1999 to the new moon of January 6, 2000, a cycle of 29.82 days.