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The Moon on Thursday, December 7, 2056: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 0.5% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 24°

Moon age

30.0days

Moon phase on December 7, 2056Waxing Crescent

Thursday 7 December 2056358,508 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 7, 2056, the Moon will be a Waxing Crescent: 0.5% of its visible face lit, 30.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.5%Illumination at noon UTC
30.0 dMoon age
358,508 km222,766 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (24°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 7, 2056 is on Friday, December 22, 2056 at 01:34 UTC, 15 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, December 6, 2056 at 22:31 UTC, 1 day earlier.

The Moon around December 7

More about this date

Thursday, December 7, 2056 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 6, 2056 to the new moon of January 5, 2057, a cycle of 29.47 days.