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The Moon on Friday, December 19, 1969: Waxing Gibbous, 83% lit

Waxing · 83.4% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 09°

Moon age

10.1days

Moon phase on December 19, 1969Waxing Gibbous

Friday 19 December 1969390,860 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 19, 1969, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 83.4% of its visible face lit, 10.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

83.4%Illumination at noon UTC
10.1 dMoon age
390,860 km242,869 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (9°)
30.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 19, 1969 is on Tuesday, December 23, 1969 at 17:35 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, December 9, 1969 at 09:42 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Tuesday, December 16, 196901:09
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, December 23, 196917:35

The Moon around December 19

More about this date

Friday, December 19, 1969 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 9, 1969 to the new moon of January 7, 1970, a cycle of 29.45 days.