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The Moon on Tuesday, December 17, 1912: Waxing Gibbous, 56% lit

Waxing · 56.5% lit · ♈︎ Aries 02°

Moon age

8.8days

Moon phase on December 17, 1912Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 17 December 1912398,648 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 17, 1912, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 56.5% of its visible face lit, 8.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

56.5%Illumination at noon UTC
8.8 dMoon age
398,648 km247,708 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (3°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 17, 1912 is on Tuesday, December 24, 1912 at 04:30 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 8, 1912 at 17:07 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, December 16, 191220:06
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, December 24, 191204:30

The Moon around December 17

More about this date

Tuesday, December 17, 1912 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 8, 1912 to the new moon of January 7, 1913, a cycle of 29.72 days.