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The Moon on Sunday, December 25, 1983: Waning Gibbous, 65% lit

Waning · 64.6% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 16°

Moon age

21.0days

Moon phase on December 25, 1983Waning Gibbous

Sunday 25 December 1983368,782 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 25, 1983, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 64.6% of its visible face lit, 21.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

64.6%Illumination at noon UTC
21.0 dMoon age
368,782 km229,151 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (16°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 25, 1983 is on Tuesday, December 20, 1983 at 02:00 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 3, 1984 at 05:16 UTC, 9 days later.

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

The Moon around December 25

More about this date

Sunday, December 25, 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.