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The Moon on Friday, December 27, 1963: Waxing Gibbous, 88% lit

Waxing · 87.6% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 23°

Moon age

11.4days

Moon phase on December 27, 1963Waxing Gibbous

Friday 27 December 1963362,021 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 27, 1963, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 87.6% of its visible face lit, 11.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

87.6%Illumination at noon UTC
11.4 dMoon age
362,021 km224,949 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (24°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 27, 1963 is on Monday, December 30, 1963 at 11:04 UTC, 3 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 16, 1963 at 02:06 UTC, 11 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, December 23, 196319:54
Full Moon (after)Monday, December 30, 196311:04

The Moon around December 27

More about this date

Friday, December 27, 1963 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 16, 1963 to the new moon of January 14, 1964, a cycle of 29.78 days.