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The Moon on Thursday, December 23, 1909: Waxing Gibbous, 85% lit

Waxing · 85.5% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 16°

Moon age

10.7days

Moon phase on December 23, 1909Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 23 December 1909367,255 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 23, 1909, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 85.5% of its visible face lit, 10.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

85.5%Illumination at noon UTC
10.7 dMoon age
367,255 km228,202 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (16°)
32.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 23, 1909 is on Sunday, December 26, 1909 at 21:30 UTC, 3 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 12, 1909 at 19:59 UTC, 11 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 23

More about this date

Thursday, December 23, 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.