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The Moon on Thursday, December 21, 2079: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 2.9% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 10°

Moon age

28.0days

Moon phase on December 21, 2079Waning Crescent

Thursday 21 December 2079404,841 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 21, 2079, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent: 2.9% of its visible face lit, 28.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

2.9%Illumination at noon UTC
28.0 dMoon age
404,841 km251,557 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (10°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 21, 2079 is on Friday, December 8, 2079 at 15:16 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 23, 2079 at 06:31 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, December 15, 207906:43
New Moon (after)Saturday, December 23, 207906:31

The Moon around December 21

More about this date

Thursday, December 21, 2079 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 23, 2079 to the new moon of December 23, 2079, a cycle of 29.79 days.