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The Moon on Thursday, December 29, 2011: Waxing Crescent, 24% lit

Waxing · 24.5% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 06°

Moon age

4.7days

Moon phase on December 29, 2011Waxing Crescent

Thursday 29 December 2011392,918 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 29, 2011, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 24.5% of its visible face lit, 4.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

24.5%Illumination at noon UTC
4.7 dMoon age
392,918 km244,148 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (6°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 29, 2011 is on Monday, January 9, 2012 at 07:30 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 24, 2011 at 18:06 UTC, 5 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 29

More about this date

Thursday, December 29, 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.