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The Moon on Friday, December 23, 1994: Waning Gibbous, 74% lit

Waning · 73.6% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 03°

Moon age

20.5days

Moon phase on December 23, 1994Waning Gibbous

Friday 23 December 1994387,016 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 23, 1994, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 73.6% of its visible face lit, 20.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

73.6%Illumination at noon UTC
20.5 dMoon age
387,016 km240,481 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (3°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 23, 1994 is on Sunday, December 18, 1994 at 02:17 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 1, 1995 at 10:56 UTC, 9 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, December 18, 199402:17
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, December 25, 199419:07

The Moon around December 23

More about this date

Friday, December 23, 1994 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 2, 1994 to the new moon of January 1, 1995, a cycle of 29.46 days.