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The Moon on Sunday, December 12, 1999: Waxing Crescent, 18% lit

Waxing · 17.6% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 09°

Moon age

4.6days

Moon phase on December 12, 1999Waxing Crescent

Sunday 12 December 1999400,791 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 12, 1999, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 17.6% of its visible face lit, 4.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

17.6%Illumination at noon UTC
4.6 dMoon age
400,791 km249,040 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (9°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 12, 1999 is on Wednesday, December 22, 1999 at 17:31 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, December 7, 1999 at 22:32 UTC, 5 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 12

More about this date

Sunday, December 12, 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.