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The Moon on Monday, December 26, 1960: Waxing Gibbous, 65% lit

Waxing · 64.7% lit · ♈︎ Aries 21°

Moon age

8.1days

Moon phase on December 26, 1960Waxing Gibbous

Monday 26 December 1960386,642 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, December 26, 1960, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 64.7% of its visible face lit, 8.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

64.7%Illumination at noon UTC
8.1 dMoon age
386,642 km240,248 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (22°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 26, 1960 is on Sunday, January 1, 1961 at 23:06 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 18, 1960 at 10:47 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, December 25, 196002:30
Full Moon (after)Sunday, January 1, 196123:06

The Moon around December 26

More about this date

Monday, December 26, 1960 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 18, 1960 to the new moon of January 16, 1961, a cycle of 29.45 days.