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The Moon on Sunday, December 1, 1985: Waning Gibbous, 86% lit

Waning · 85.9% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 23°

Moon age

18.9days

Moon phase on December 1, 1985Waning Gibbous

Sunday 1 December 1985396,709 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 1, 1985, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 85.9% of its visible face lit, 18.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

85.9%Illumination at noon UTC
18.9 dMoon age
396,709 km246,503 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (23°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 1, 1985 is on Wednesday, November 27, 1985 at 12:42 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 12, 1985 at 00:55 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, November 27, 198512:42
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, December 5, 198509:01

The Moon around December 1

More about this date

Sunday, December 1, 1985 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 12, 1985 to the new moon of December 12, 1985, a cycle of 29.44 days.