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The Moon on Sunday, December 22, 1985: Waxing Gibbous, 80% lit

Waxing · 80.5% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 08°

Moon age

10.5days

Moon phase on December 22, 1985Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 22 December 1985405,264 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 22, 1985, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 80.5% of its visible face lit, 10.5 days after the new moon and growing each night.

80.5%Illumination at noon UTC
10.5 dMoon age
405,264 km251,820 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (8°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 22, 1985 is on Friday, December 27, 1985 at 07:31 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 12, 1985 at 00:55 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, December 19, 198501:58
Full Moon (after)Friday, December 27, 198507:31

The Moon around December 22

More about this date

Sunday, December 22, 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.