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The Moon on Friday, December 23, 1904: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.2% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 10°

Moon age

16.3days

Moon phase on December 23, 1904Waning Gibbous

Friday 23 December 1904376,364 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 23, 1904, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.2% of its visible face lit, 16.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.2%Illumination at noon UTC
16.3 dMoon age
376,364 km233,862 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (11°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 23, 1904 is on Thursday, December 22, 1904 at 18:01 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 5, 1905 at 18:17 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, December 22, 190418:01
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, December 29, 190415:46

The Moon around December 23

More about this date

Friday, December 23, 1904 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 7, 1904 to the new moon of January 5, 1905, a cycle of 29.60 days.