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The Moon on Thursday, December 8, 2072: Waning Crescent, 2% lit

Waning · 2.0% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 01°

Moon age

28.3days

Moon phase on December 8, 2072Waning Crescent

Thursday 8 December 2072375,510 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 8, 2072, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent: 2.0% of its visible face lit, 28.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

2.0%Illumination at noon UTC
28.3 dMoon age
375,510 km233,331 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (2°)
31.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 8, 2072 is on Friday, November 25, 2072 at 16:59 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 9, 2072 at 16:59 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, December 2, 207219:22
New Moon (after)Friday, December 9, 207216:59

The Moon around December 8

More about this date

Thursday, December 8, 2072 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 10, 2072 to the new moon of December 9, 2072, a cycle of 29.53 days.