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The Moon on Saturday, December 28, 1985: Waning Gibbous, 98% lit

Waning · 98.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 20°

Moon age

16.5days

Moon phase on December 28, 1985Waning Gibbous

Saturday 28 December 1985396,192 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, December 28, 1985, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 98.5% of its visible face lit, 16.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

98.5%Illumination at noon UTC
16.5 dMoon age
396,192 km246,182 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (20°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 28, 1985 is on Friday, December 27, 1985 at 07:31 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 10, 1986 at 12:22 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, December 27, 198507:31
Last Quarter (after)Friday, January 3, 198619:47

The Moon around December 28

More about this date

Saturday, December 28, 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.