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The Moon on Monday, December 19, 1988: Waxing Gibbous, 84% lit

Waxing · 83.8% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 10°

Moon age

10.3days

Moon phase on December 19, 1988Waxing Gibbous

Monday 19 December 1988373,023 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, December 19, 1988, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 83.8% of its visible face lit, 10.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

83.8%Illumination at noon UTC
10.3 dMoon age
373,023 km231,786 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (10°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 19, 1988 is on Friday, December 23, 1988 at 05:29 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 9, 1988 at 05:36 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Friday, December 16, 198805:40
Full Moon (after)Friday, December 23, 198805:29

The Moon around December 19

More about this date

Monday, December 19, 1988 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 9, 1988 to the new moon of January 7, 1989, a cycle of 29.57 days.