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The Moon on Sunday, December 29, 2013: Waning Crescent, 13% lit

Waning · 12.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 26°

Moon age

26.5days

Moon phase on December 29, 2013Waning Crescent

Sunday 29 December 2013367,344 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 29, 2013, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 12.5% of its visible face lit, 26.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

12.5%Illumination at noon UTC
26.5 dMoon age
367,344 km228,257 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (27°)
32.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 29, 2013 is on Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at 09:28 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, January 1, 2014 at 11:14 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, December 25, 201313:48
New Moon (after)Wednesday, January 1, 201411:14

The Moon around December 29

More about this date

Sunday, December 29, 2013 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 3, 2013 to the new moon of January 1, 2014, a cycle of 29.45 days.