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The Moon on Tuesday, December 24, 2019: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 3.5% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 11°

Moon age

27.9days

Moon phase on December 24, 2019Waning Crescent

Tuesday 24 December 2019378,227 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 24, 2019, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.5% of its visible face lit, 27.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.5%Illumination at noon UTC
27.9 dMoon age
378,227 km235,019 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (11°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 24, 2019 is on Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 05:12 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 26, 2019 at 05:13 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, December 19, 201904:57
New Moon (after)Thursday, December 26, 201905:13

The Moon around December 24

More about this date

Tuesday, December 24, 2019 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 26, 2019 to the new moon of December 26, 2019, a cycle of 29.59 days.