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The Moon on Friday, December 27, 1991: Waning Gibbous, 56% lit

Waning · 56.4% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 27°

Moon age

21.3days

Moon phase on December 27, 1991Waning Gibbous

Friday 27 December 1991376,564 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 27, 1991, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 56.4% of its visible face lit, 21.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

56.4%Illumination at noon UTC
21.3 dMoon age
376,564 km233,986 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (28°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 27, 1991 is on Saturday, December 21, 1991 at 10:23 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 4, 1992 at 23:10 UTC, 8 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, December 21, 199110:23
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, December 28, 199101:55

The Moon around December 27

More about this date

Friday, December 27, 1991 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 6, 1991 to the new moon of January 4, 1992, a cycle of 29.80 days.