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The Moon on Tuesday, December 16, 1902: Waning Gibbous, 97% lit

Waning · 97.1% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 12°

Moon age

16.4days

Moon phase on December 16, 1902Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 16 December 1902357,625 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 16, 1902, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 97.1% of its visible face lit, 16.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

97.1%Illumination at noon UTC
16.4 dMoon age
357,625 km222,218 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (13°)
33.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 16, 1902 is on Monday, December 15, 1902 at 03:47 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 29, 1902 at 21:25 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, December 15, 190203:47
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, December 21, 190220:00

The Moon around December 16

More about this date

Tuesday, December 16, 1902 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 30, 1902 to the new moon of December 29, 1902, a cycle of 29.81 days.