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The Moon on Sunday, December 25, 2011: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 0.8% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 13°

Moon age

0.7days

Moon phase on December 25, 2011Waxing Crescent

Sunday 25 December 2011372,275 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 25, 2011, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.8% of its visible face lit, 0.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.8%Illumination at noon UTC
0.7 dMoon age
372,275 km231,321 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (13°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 25, 2011 is on Monday, January 9, 2012 at 07:30 UTC, 15 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 24, 2011 at 18:06 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, December 24, 201118:06
First Quarter (after)Sunday, January 1, 201206:15

The Moon around December 25

More about this date

Sunday, December 25, 2011 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 24, 2011 to the new moon of January 23, 2012, a cycle of 29.56 days.