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The Moon on Tuesday, December 7, 2010: Waxing Crescent, 4% lit

Waxing · 3.6% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 06°

Moon age

1.8days

Moon phase on December 7, 2010Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 7 December 2010386,609 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 3.6% of its visible face lit, 1.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

3.6%Illumination at noon UTC
1.8 dMoon age
386,609 km240,228 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (7°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 7, 2010 is on Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 08:14 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 17:36 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, December 5, 201017:36
First Quarter (after)Monday, December 13, 201013:59

The Moon around December 7

More about this date

Tuesday, December 7, 2010 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 5, 2010 to the new moon of January 4, 2011, a cycle of 29.64 days.