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The Moon on Sunday, December 27, 1998: Waxing Gibbous, 62% lit

Waxing · 61.9% lit · ♈︎ Aries 19°

Moon age

8.6days

Moon phase on December 27, 1998Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 27 December 1998369,636 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 27, 1998, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 61.9% of its visible face lit, 8.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

61.9%Illumination at noon UTC
8.6 dMoon age
369,636 km229,681 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (19°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 27, 1998 is on Saturday, January 2, 1999 at 02:50 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 18, 1998 at 22:43 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, December 26, 199810:46
Full Moon (after)Saturday, January 2, 199902:50

The Moon around December 27

More about this date

Sunday, December 27, 1998 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 18, 1998 to the new moon of January 17, 1999, a cycle of 29.71 days.