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The Moon on Friday, December 30, 2005: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.8% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 00°

Moon age

28.9days

Moon phase on December 30, 2005Waning Crescent

Friday 30 December 2005366,506 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 30, 2005, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.8% of its visible face lit, 28.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.8%Illumination at noon UTC
28.9 dMoon age
366,506 km227,736 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (0°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 30, 2005 is on Thursday, December 15, 2005 at 16:16 UTC, 15 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 31, 2005 at 03:12 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around December 30

More about this date

Friday, December 30, 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.