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The Moon on Wednesday, December 28, 1966: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.1% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 16°

Moon age

16.4days

Moon phase on December 28, 1966Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 28 December 1966375,443 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 28, 1966, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.1% of its visible face lit, 16.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.1%Illumination at noon UTC
16.4 dMoon age
375,443 km233,289 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (16°)
31.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 28, 1966 is on Tuesday, December 27, 1966 at 17:43 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 10, 1967 at 18:06 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, December 27, 196617:43
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, January 3, 196714:19

The Moon around December 28

More about this date

Wednesday, December 28, 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.