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The Moon on Tuesday, December 5, 2056: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 3.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 23°

Moon age

28.0days

Moon phase on December 5, 2056Waning Crescent

Tuesday 5 December 2056358,104 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 5, 2056, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent: 3.3% of its visible face lit, 28.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.3%Illumination at noon UTC
28.0 dMoon age
358,104 km222,515 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (24°)
33.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 5, 2056 is on Wednesday, November 22, 2056 at 06:12 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, December 6, 2056 at 22:31 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, November 30, 205606:37
New Moon (after)Wednesday, December 6, 205622:31

The Moon around December 5

More about this date

Tuesday, December 5, 2056 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 7, 2056 to the new moon of December 6, 2056, a cycle of 29.42 days.