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The Moon on Tuesday, December 15, 2015: Waxing Crescent, 18% lit

Waxing · 17.9% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 13°

Moon age

4.1days

Moon phase on December 15, 2015Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 15 December 2015377,697 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 15, 2015, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 17.9% of its visible face lit, 4.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

17.9%Illumination at noon UTC
4.1 dMoon age
377,697 km234,690 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (13°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 15, 2015 is on Friday, December 25, 2015 at 11:12 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 11, 2015 at 10:30 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, December 11, 201510:30
First Quarter (after)Friday, December 18, 201515:14

The Moon around December 15

More about this date

Tuesday, December 15, 2015 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 11, 2015 to the new moon of January 10, 2016, a cycle of 29.63 days.