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The Moon on Wednesday, November 23, 2011: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 4.6% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 06°

Moon age

27.7days

Moon phase on November 23, 2011Waning Crescent

Wednesday 23 November 2011359,876 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, November 23, 2011, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.6% of its visible face lit, 27.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.6%Illumination at noon UTC
27.7 dMoon age
359,876 km223,617 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (6°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 23, 2011 is on Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 20:16 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, November 25, 2011 at 06:10 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, November 18, 201115:09
New Moon (after)Friday, November 25, 201106:10

The Moon around November 23

More about this date

Wednesday, November 23, 2011 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 26, 2011 to the new moon of November 25, 2011, a cycle of 29.43 days.