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The Moon on Thursday, December 19, 1985: First Quarter, 54% lit

Waxing · 54.2% lit · ♈︎ Aries 02°

First Quarter at

01:58UTC

Moon phase on December 19, 1985First Quarter

Thursday 19 December 1985397,661 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 19, 1985, the Moon was a First Quarter: 54.2% of its visible face lit, 7.5 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

54.2%Illumination at noon UTC
7.5 dMoon age
397,661 km247,095 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (2°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 19, 1985 is on Friday, December 27, 1985 at 07:31 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 12, 1985 at 00:55 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, December 12, 198500:55
First Quarter (this day)Thursday, December 19, 198501:58
Full Moon (after)Friday, December 27, 198507:31

The Moon around December 19

More about this date

Thursday, December 19, 1985 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 12, 1985 to the new moon of January 10, 1986, a cycle of 29.48 days.