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The Moon on Monday, December 20, 2004: Waxing Gibbous, 69% lit

Waxing · 68.6% lit · ♈︎ Aries 20°

Moon age

8.4days

Moon phase on December 20, 2004Waxing Gibbous

Monday 20 December 2004389,626 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, December 20, 2004, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 68.6% of its visible face lit, 8.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

68.6%Illumination at noon UTC
8.4 dMoon age
389,626 km242,102 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (21°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 20, 2004 is on Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 15:07 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 12, 2004 at 01:29 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, December 18, 200416:40
Full Moon (after)Sunday, December 26, 200415:07

The Moon around December 20

More about this date

Monday, December 20, 2004 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 12, 2004 to the new moon of January 10, 2005, a cycle of 29.44 days.