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The Moon on Sunday, December 21, 2014: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.6% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 22°

Moon age

29.0days

Moon phase on December 21, 2014Waning Crescent

Sunday 21 December 2014371,497 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 21, 2014, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.6% of its visible face lit, 29.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.6%Illumination at noon UTC
29.0 dMoon age
371,497 km230,838 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (22°)
32.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 21, 2014 is on Monday, January 5, 2015 at 04:54 UTC, 15 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 22, 2014 at 01:36 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, December 14, 201412:51
New Moon (after)Monday, December 22, 201401:36

The Moon around December 21

More about this date

Sunday, December 21, 2014 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 22, 2014 to the new moon of December 22, 2014, a cycle of 29.54 days.