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The Moon on Tuesday, December 8, 2015: Waning Crescent, 9% lit

Waning · 8.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 12°

Moon age

26.8days

Moon phase on December 8, 2015Waning Crescent

Tuesday 8 December 2015400,429 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 8, 2015, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 8.5% of its visible face lit, 26.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

8.5%Illumination at noon UTC
26.8 dMoon age
400,429 km248,815 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (12°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 8, 2015 is on Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 22:44 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 11, 2015 at 10:30 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, December 3, 201507:41
New Moon (after)Friday, December 11, 201510:30

The Moon around December 8

More about this date

Tuesday, December 8, 2015 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 11, 2015 to the new moon of December 11, 2015, a cycle of 29.70 days.