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The Moon on Thursday, December 23, 1993: Waxing Gibbous, 73% lit

Waxing · 73.4% lit · ♈︎ Aries 29°

Moon age

10.1days

Moon phase on December 23, 1993Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 23 December 1993403,647 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 23, 1993, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 73.4% of its visible face lit, 10.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

73.4%Illumination at noon UTC
10.1 dMoon age
403,647 km250,814 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (29°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 23, 1993 is on Tuesday, December 28, 1993 at 23:05 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 13, 1993 at 09:27 UTC, 10 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 23

More about this date

Thursday, December 23, 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.