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The Moon on Sunday, December 9, 1984: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 98.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 00°

Moon age

16.5days

Moon phase on December 9, 1984Waning Gibbous

Sunday 9 December 1984387,030 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 9, 1984, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 98.8% of its visible face lit, 16.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

98.8%Illumination at noon UTC
16.5 dMoon age
387,030 km240,489 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (0°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 9, 1984 is on Saturday, December 8, 1984 at 10:54 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 22, 1984 at 11:47 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, December 8, 198410:54
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, December 15, 198415:25

The Moon around December 9

More about this date

Sunday, December 9, 1984 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 22, 1984 to the new moon of December 22, 1984, a cycle of 29.53 days.