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The Moon on Sunday, December 10, 1978: Waxing Gibbous, 84% lit

Waxing · 84.2% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 01°

Moon age

10.2days

Moon phase on December 10, 1978Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 10 December 1978386,092 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 10, 1978, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 84.2% of its visible face lit, 10.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

84.2%Illumination at noon UTC
10.2 dMoon age
386,092 km239,906 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (1°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 10, 1978 is on Thursday, December 14, 1978 at 12:31 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, November 30, 1978 at 08:20 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, December 7, 197800:34
Full Moon (after)Thursday, December 14, 197812:31

The Moon around December 10

More about this date

Sunday, December 10, 1978 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 30, 1978 to the new moon of December 29, 1978, a cycle of 29.47 days.