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The Moon on Sunday, December 6, 2043: Waxing Crescent, 20% lit

Waxing · 20.5% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 07°

Moon age

4.9days

Moon phase on December 6, 2043Waxing Crescent

Sunday 6 December 2043398,668 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 6, 2043, the Moon will be a Waxing Crescent: 20.5% of its visible face lit, 4.9 days after the new moon and growing each night.

20.5%Illumination at noon UTC
4.9 dMoon age
398,668 km247,721 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (8°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 6, 2043 is on Wednesday, December 16, 2043 at 08:02 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, December 1, 2043 at 14:37 UTC, 5 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, December 1, 204314:37
First Quarter (after)Wednesday, December 9, 204315:27

The Moon around December 6

More about this date

Sunday, December 6, 2043 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 1, 2043 to the new moon of December 31, 2043, a cycle of 29.80 days.