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The Moon on Tuesday, December 21, 1993: Waxing Gibbous, 55% lit

Waxing · 55.5% lit · ♈︎ Aries 05°

Moon age

8.1days

Moon phase on December 21, 1993Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 21 December 1993404,063 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 21, 1993, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 55.5% of its visible face lit, 8.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

55.5%Illumination at noon UTC
8.1 dMoon age
404,063 km251,073 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (6°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 21, 1993 is on Tuesday, December 28, 1993 at 23:05 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 13, 1993 at 09:27 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, December 20, 199322:26
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, December 28, 199323:05

The Moon around December 21

More about this date

Tuesday, December 21, 1993 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 13, 1993 to the new moon of January 11, 1994, a cycle of 29.57 days.