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The Moon on Sunday, December 5, 2004: Last Quarter, 46% lit

Waning · 45.5% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 19°

Last Quarter at

00:53UTC

Moon phase on December 5, 2004Last Quarter

Sunday 5 December 2004392,376 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 5, 2004, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 45.5% of its visible face lit, 22.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

45.5%Illumination at noon UTC
22.9 dMoon age
392,376 km243,811 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (19°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 5, 2004 is on Friday, November 26, 2004 at 20:08 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 12, 2004 at 01:29 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, November 26, 200420:08
Last Quarter (this day)Sunday, December 5, 200400:53
New Moon (after)Sunday, December 12, 200401:29

The Moon around December 5

More about this date

Sunday, December 5, 2004 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 12, 2004 to the new moon of December 12, 2004, a cycle of 29.46 days.