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The Moon on Sunday, December 13, 1981: Waning Gibbous, 93% lit

Waning · 93.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 21°

Moon age

16.9days

Moon phase on December 13, 1981Waning Gibbous

Sunday 13 December 1981362,782 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 13, 1981, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 93.3% of its visible face lit, 16.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

93.3%Illumination at noon UTC
16.9 dMoon age
362,782 km225,422 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (21°)
32.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 13, 1981 is on Friday, December 11, 1981 at 08:41 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 26, 1981 at 10:10 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, December 11, 198108:41
Last Quarter (after)Friday, December 18, 198105:47

The Moon around December 13

More about this date

Sunday, December 13, 1981 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 26, 1981 to the new moon of December 26, 1981, a cycle of 29.81 days.