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The Moon on Wednesday, December 28, 2005: Waning Crescent, 9% lit

Waning · 9.2% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 01°

Moon age

26.9days

Moon phase on December 28, 2005Waning Crescent

Wednesday 28 December 2005376,257 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 28, 2005, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 9.2% of its visible face lit, 26.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

9.2%Illumination at noon UTC
26.9 dMoon age
376,257 km233,795 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (2°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 28, 2005 is on Thursday, December 15, 2005 at 16:16 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 31, 2005 at 03:12 UTC, 3 days later.

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

The Moon around December 28

More about this date

Wednesday, December 28, 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.