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The Moon on Tuesday, December 21, 1909: Waxing Gibbous, 66% lit

Waxing · 65.9% lit · ♈︎ Aries 17°

Moon age

8.7days

Moon phase on December 21, 1909Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 21 December 1909368,745 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 21, 1909, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 65.9% of its visible face lit, 8.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

65.9%Illumination at noon UTC
8.7 dMoon age
368,745 km229,127 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (18°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 21, 1909 is on Sunday, December 26, 1909 at 21:30 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 12, 1909 at 19:59 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, December 20, 190902:18
Full Moon (after)Sunday, December 26, 190921:30

The Moon around December 21

More about this date

Tuesday, December 21, 1909 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 12, 1909 to the new moon of January 11, 1910, a cycle of 29.66 days.