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The Moon on Saturday, December 21, 1912: Waxing Gibbous, 91% lit

Waxing · 90.7% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 23°

Moon age

12.8days

Moon phase on December 21, 1912Waxing Gibbous

Saturday 21 December 1912377,302 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, December 21, 1912, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 90.7% of its visible face lit, 12.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

90.7%Illumination at noon UTC
12.8 dMoon age
377,302 km234,444 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (24°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 21, 1912 is on Tuesday, December 24, 1912 at 04:30 UTC, 3 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 8, 1912 at 17:07 UTC, 13 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 21

More about this date

Saturday, December 21, 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.