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The Moon on Tuesday, December 13, 1983: Waxing Gibbous, 59% lit

Waxing · 59.2% lit · ♈︎ Aries 01°

Moon age

9.0days

Moon phase on December 13, 1983Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 13 December 1983400,701 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 13, 1983, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 59.2% of its visible face lit, 9.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

59.2%Illumination at noon UTC
9.0 dMoon age
400,701 km248,984 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (1°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 13, 1983 is on Tuesday, December 20, 1983 at 02:00 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 4, 1983 at 12:26 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, December 12, 198313:09
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, December 20, 198302:00

The Moon around December 13

More about this date

Tuesday, December 13, 1983 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 4, 1983 to the new moon of January 3, 1984, a cycle of 29.70 days.