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The Moon on Wednesday, December 14, 1983: Waxing Gibbous, 68% lit

Waxing · 68.5% lit · ♈︎ Aries 13°

Moon age

10.0days

Moon phase on December 14, 1983Waxing Gibbous

Wednesday 14 December 1983396,985 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 14, 1983, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 68.5% of its visible face lit, 10.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

68.5%Illumination at noon UTC
10.0 dMoon age
396,985 km246,675 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (14°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 14, 1983 is on Tuesday, December 20, 1983 at 02:00 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 4, 1983 at 12:26 UTC, 10 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 14

More about this date

Wednesday, December 14, 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.