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The Moon on Thursday, June 22, 1978: Waning Gibbous, 96% lit

Waning · 95.7% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 24°

Moon age

16.7days

Moon phase on June 22, 1978Waning Gibbous

Thursday 22 June 1978358,601 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, June 22, 1978, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 95.7% of its visible face lit, 16.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.7%Illumination at noon UTC
16.7 dMoon age
358,601 km222,824 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (24°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 22, 1978 is on Tuesday, June 20, 1978 at 20:31 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, July 5, 1978 at 09:51 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, June 20, 197820:31
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, June 27, 197811:44

The Moon around June 22

More about this date

Thursday, June 22, 1978 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 5, 1978 to the new moon of July 5, 1978, a cycle of 29.62 days.