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The Moon on Thursday, December 8, 2078: Waxing Crescent, 14% lit

Waxing · 14.5% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 01°

Moon age

4.0days

Moon phase on December 8, 2078Waxing Crescent

Thursday 8 December 2078395,944 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 8, 2078, the Moon will be a Waxing Crescent: 14.5% of its visible face lit, 4.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

14.5%Illumination at noon UTC
4.0 dMoon age
395,944 km246,028 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (1°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 8, 2078 is on Sunday, December 18, 2078 at 23:34 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 4, 2078 at 12:08 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, December 4, 207812:08
First Quarter (after)Monday, December 12, 207807:52

The Moon around December 8

More about this date

Thursday, December 8, 2078 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 4, 2078 to the new moon of January 3, 2079, a cycle of 29.78 days.