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The Moon on Sunday, December 31, 2051: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 2.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 20°

Moon age

28.1days

Moon phase on December 31, 2051Waning Crescent

Sunday 31 December 2051398,094 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 31, 2051, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent: 2.8% of its visible face lit, 28.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

2.8%Illumination at noon UTC
28.1 dMoon age
398,094 km247,364 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (21°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 31, 2051 is on Sunday, December 17, 2051 at 16:05 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 2, 2052 at 03:05 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, December 24, 205123:21
New Moon (after)Tuesday, January 2, 205203:05

The Moon around December 31

More about this date

Sunday, December 31, 2051 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 3, 2051 to the new moon of January 2, 2052, a cycle of 29.73 days.