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The Moon on Tuesday, December 29, 1998: Waxing Gibbous, 82% lit

Waxing · 82.5% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 18°

Moon age

10.6days

Moon phase on December 29, 1998Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 29 December 1998364,766 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 29, 1998, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 82.5% of its visible face lit, 10.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

82.5%Illumination at noon UTC
10.6 dMoon age
364,766 km226,655 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (18°)
32.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 29, 1998 is on Saturday, January 2, 1999 at 02:50 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 18, 1998 at 22:43 UTC, 11 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 29

More about this date

Tuesday, December 29, 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.