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The Moon on Friday, December 23, 1966: Waxing Gibbous, 82% lit

Waxing · 81.8% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 10°

Moon age

11.4days

Moon phase on December 23, 1966Waxing Gibbous

Friday 23 December 1966396,816 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 23, 1966, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 81.8% of its visible face lit, 11.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

81.8%Illumination at noon UTC
11.4 dMoon age
396,816 km246,570 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (11°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 23, 1966 is on Tuesday, December 27, 1966 at 17:43 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 12, 1966 at 03:13 UTC, 11 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 23

More about this date

Friday, December 23, 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.