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The Moon on Sunday, December 22, 1974: Waxing Gibbous, 57% lit

Waxing · 56.7% lit · ♈︎ Aries 07°

Moon age

8.8days

Moon phase on December 22, 1974Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 22 December 1974398,325 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 22, 1974, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 56.7% of its visible face lit, 8.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

56.7%Illumination at noon UTC
8.8 dMoon age
398,325 km247,507 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (8°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 22, 1974 is on Sunday, December 29, 1974 at 03:51 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 13, 1974 at 16:25 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, December 21, 197419:44
Full Moon (after)Sunday, December 29, 197403:51

The Moon around December 22

More about this date

Sunday, December 22, 1974 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 13, 1974 to the new moon of January 12, 1975, a cycle of 29.75 days.