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The Moon on Tuesday, December 28, 2004: Waning Gibbous, 97% lit

Waning · 96.7% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 27°

Moon age

16.4days

Moon phase on December 28, 2004Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 28 December 2004406,309 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 28, 2004, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 96.7% of its visible face lit, 16.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

96.7%Illumination at noon UTC
16.4 dMoon age
406,309 km252,469 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (27°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 28, 2004 is on Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 15:07 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 10, 2005 at 12:03 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, December 26, 200415:07
Last Quarter (after)Monday, January 3, 200517:46

The Moon around December 28

More about this date

Tuesday, December 28, 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.