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The Moon on Sunday, December 5, 1965: Waxing Gibbous, 88% lit

Waxing · 87.7% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 02°

Moon age

12.3days

Moon phase on December 5, 1965Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 5 December 1965384,211 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 5, 1965, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 87.7% of its visible face lit, 12.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

87.7%Illumination at noon UTC
12.3 dMoon age
384,211 km238,738 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (2°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 5, 1965 is on Wednesday, December 8, 1965 at 17:21 UTC, 3 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, November 23, 1965 at 04:10 UTC, 12 days earlier.

The Moon around December 5

More about this date

Sunday, December 5, 1965 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 23, 1965 to the new moon of December 22, 1965, a cycle of 29.70 days.