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The Moon on Tuesday, December 30, 2008: Waxing Crescent, 8% lit

Waxing · 7.8% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 11°

Moon age

3.0days

Moon phase on December 30, 2008Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 30 December 2008402,119 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 30, 2008, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 7.8% of its visible face lit, 3.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

7.8%Illumination at noon UTC
3.0 dMoon age
402,119 km249,865 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (12°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 30, 2008 is on Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 03:27 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 12:23 UTC, 3 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 30

More about this date

Tuesday, December 30, 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.