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The Moon on Saturday, December 8, 2018: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 1.5% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 29°

Moon age

1.2days

Moon phase on December 8, 2018Waxing Crescent

Saturday 8 December 2018397,922 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, December 8, 2018, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 1.5% of its visible face lit, 1.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

1.5%Illumination at noon UTC
1.2 dMoon age
397,922 km247,257 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (30°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 8, 2018 is on Saturday, December 22, 2018 at 17:49 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 7, 2018 at 07:21 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, December 7, 201807:21
First Quarter (after)Saturday, December 15, 201811:50

The Moon around December 8

More about this date

Saturday, December 8, 2018 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 7, 2018 to the new moon of January 6, 2019, a cycle of 29.76 days.