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The Moon on Tuesday, December 24, 1974: Waxing Gibbous, 75% lit

Waxing · 75.4% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 02°

Moon age

10.8days

Moon phase on December 24, 1974Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 24 December 1974388,346 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 24, 1974, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 75.4% of its visible face lit, 10.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

75.4%Illumination at noon UTC
10.8 dMoon age
388,346 km241,307 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (3°)
30.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 24, 1974 is on Sunday, December 29, 1974 at 03:51 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 13, 1974 at 16:25 UTC, 11 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 24

More about this date

Tuesday, December 24, 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.