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The Moon on Friday, December 19, 1975: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 07°

Moon age

16.5days

Moon phase on December 19, 1975Waning Gibbous

Friday 19 December 1975381,254 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 19, 1975, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.0% of its visible face lit, 16.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.0%Illumination at noon UTC
16.5 dMoon age
381,254 km236,900 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (8°)
31.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 19, 1975 is on Thursday, December 18, 1975 at 14:40 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 1, 1976 at 14:40 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, December 18, 197514:40
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, December 25, 197514:52

The Moon around December 19

More about this date

Friday, December 19, 1975 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 3, 1975 to the new moon of January 1, 1976, a cycle of 29.58 days.