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The Moon on Tuesday, December 27, 1977: Waning Gibbous, 96% lit

Waning · 96.4% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 27°

Moon age

16.8days

Moon phase on December 27, 1977Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 27 December 1977404,328 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 27, 1977, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 96.4% of its visible face lit, 16.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

96.4%Illumination at noon UTC
16.8 dMoon age
404,328 km251,238 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (27°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 27, 1977 is on Sunday, December 25, 1977 at 12:49 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 9, 1978 at 04:00 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, December 25, 197712:49
Last Quarter (after)Monday, January 2, 197812:07

The Moon around December 27

More about this date

Tuesday, December 27, 1977 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 10, 1977 to the new moon of January 9, 1978, a cycle of 29.44 days.