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The Moon on Thursday, December 22, 1966: Waxing Gibbous, 74% lit

Waxing · 73.8% lit · ♈︎ Aries 28°

Moon age

10.4days

Moon phase on December 22, 1966Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 22 December 1966400,318 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 22, 1966, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 73.8% of its visible face lit, 10.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

73.8%Illumination at noon UTC
10.4 dMoon age
400,318 km248,746 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (28°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 22, 1966 is on Tuesday, December 27, 1966 at 17:43 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 12, 1966 at 03:13 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, December 19, 196621:41
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, December 27, 196617:43

The Moon around December 22

More about this date

Thursday, December 22, 1966 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 12, 1966 to the new moon of January 10, 1967, a cycle of 29.62 days.