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The Moon on Sunday, December 20, 1964: Waning Gibbous, 97% lit

Waning · 97.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 18°

Moon age

16.4days

Moon phase on December 20, 1964Waning Gibbous

Sunday 20 December 1964357,881 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 20, 1964, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 97.0% of its visible face lit, 16.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

97.0%Illumination at noon UTC
16.4 dMoon age
357,881 km222,377 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (18°)
33.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 20, 1964 is on Saturday, December 19, 1964 at 02:41 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 2, 1965 at 21:07 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, December 19, 196402:41
Last Quarter (after)Friday, December 25, 196419:27

The Moon around December 20

More about this date

Sunday, December 20, 1964 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 4, 1964 to the new moon of January 2, 1965, a cycle of 29.83 days.