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The Moon on Thursday, December 6, 2018: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 04°

Moon age

28.8days

Moon phase on December 6, 2018Waning Crescent

Thursday 6 December 2018391,406 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 6, 2018, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.8% of its visible face lit, 28.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.8%Illumination at noon UTC
28.8 dMoon age
391,406 km243,208 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (5°)
30.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 6, 2018 is on Friday, November 23, 2018 at 05:39 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 7, 2018 at 07:21 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, November 30, 201800:19
New Moon (after)Friday, December 7, 201807:21

The Moon around December 6

More about this date

Thursday, December 6, 2018 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 7, 2018 to the new moon of December 7, 2018, a cycle of 29.64 days.