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The Moon on Sunday, December 26, 1999: Waning Gibbous, 81% lit

Waning · 80.9% lit · ♌︎ Leo 26°

Moon age

18.6days

Moon phase on December 26, 1999Waning Gibbous

Sunday 26 December 1999371,049 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 26, 1999, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 80.9% of its visible face lit, 18.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

80.9%Illumination at noon UTC
18.6 dMoon age
371,049 km230,559 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (26°)
32.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 26, 1999 is on Wednesday, December 22, 1999 at 17:31 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 6, 2000 at 18:14 UTC, 11 days later.

The Moon around December 26

More about this date

Sunday, December 26, 1999 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 7, 1999 to the new moon of January 6, 2000, a cycle of 29.82 days.