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The Moon on Monday, December 29, 2008: Waxing Crescent, 4% lit

Waxing · 3.5% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 29°

Moon age

2.0days

Moon phase on December 29, 2008Waxing Crescent

Monday 29 December 2008404,188 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, December 29, 2008, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 3.5% of its visible face lit, 2.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

3.5%Illumination at noon UTC
2.0 dMoon age
404,188 km251,151 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (30°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 29, 2008 is on Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 03:27 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 12:23 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, December 27, 200812:23
First Quarter (after)Sunday, January 4, 200911:56

The Moon around December 29

More about this date

Monday, December 29, 2008 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 27, 2008 to the new moon of January 26, 2009, a cycle of 29.81 days.