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The Moon on Wednesday, December 22, 1993: Waxing Gibbous, 65% lit

Waxing · 64.7% lit · ♈︎ Aries 17°

Moon age

9.1days

Moon phase on December 22, 1993Waxing Gibbous

Wednesday 22 December 1993404,485 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 22, 1993, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 64.7% of its visible face lit, 9.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

64.7%Illumination at noon UTC
9.1 dMoon age
404,485 km251,335 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (18°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 22, 1993 is on Tuesday, December 28, 1993 at 23:05 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 13, 1993 at 09:27 UTC, 9 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 22

More about this date

Wednesday, December 22, 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.