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The Moon on Friday, December 23, 1983: Waning Gibbous, 85% lit

Waning · 84.6% lit · ♌︎ Leo 17°

Moon age

19.0days

Moon phase on December 23, 1983Waning Gibbous

Friday 23 December 1983365,167 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 23, 1983, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 84.6% of its visible face lit, 19.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

84.6%Illumination at noon UTC
19.0 dMoon age
365,167 km226,904 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (17°)
32.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 23, 1983 is on Tuesday, December 20, 1983 at 02:00 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 3, 1984 at 05:16 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, December 20, 198302:00
Last Quarter (after)Monday, December 26, 198318:53

The Moon around December 23

More about this date

Friday, December 23, 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.