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The Moon on Tuesday, November 21, 2006: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 0.5% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 05°

Moon age

0.6days

Moon phase on November 21, 2006Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 21 November 2006393,479 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, November 21, 2006, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.5% of its visible face lit, 0.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.5%Illumination at noon UTC
0.6 dMoon age
393,479 km244,496 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (6°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 21, 2006 is on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 at 00:25 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, November 20, 2006 at 22:18 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, November 20, 200622:18
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, November 28, 200606:29

The Moon around November 21

More about this date

Tuesday, November 21, 2006 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 20, 2006 to the new moon of December 20, 2006, a cycle of 29.65 days.