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The Moon on Sunday, December 25, 2005: Waning Crescent, 34% lit

Waning · 34.0% lit · ♎︎ Libra 22°

Moon age

23.9days

Moon phase on December 25, 2005Waning Crescent

Sunday 25 December 2005393,353 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 25, 2005, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 34.0% of its visible face lit, 23.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

34.0%Illumination at noon UTC
23.9 dMoon age
393,353 km244,418 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (23°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 25, 2005 is on Thursday, December 15, 2005 at 16:16 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 31, 2005 at 03:12 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, December 23, 200519:36
New Moon (after)Saturday, December 31, 200503:12

The Moon around December 25

More about this date

Sunday, December 25, 2005 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 1, 2005 to the new moon of December 31, 2005, a cycle of 29.51 days.