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The Moon on Sunday, December 30, 1984: First Quarter, 53% lit

Waxing · 52.7% lit · ♈︎ Aries 11°

First Quarter at

05:28UTC

Moon phase on December 30, 1984First Quarter

Sunday 30 December 1984404,320 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 30, 1984, the Moon was a First Quarter: 52.7% of its visible face lit, 8.0 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

52.7%Illumination at noon UTC
8.0 dMoon age
404,320 km251,233 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (12°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 30, 1984 is on Monday, January 7, 1985 at 02:16 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 22, 1984 at 11:47 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, December 22, 198411:47
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, December 30, 198405:28
Full Moon (after)Monday, January 7, 198502:16

The Moon around December 30

More about this date

Sunday, December 30, 1984 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 22, 1984 to the new moon of January 21, 1985, a cycle of 29.61 days.