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The Moon on Wednesday, December 29, 2004: Waning Gibbous, 93% lit

Waning · 92.7% lit · ♌︎ Leo 09°

Moon age

17.4days

Moon phase on December 29, 2004Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 29 December 2004405,447 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 29, 2004, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 92.7% of its visible face lit, 17.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

92.7%Illumination at noon UTC
17.4 dMoon age
405,447 km251,933 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (9°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 29, 2004 is on Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 15:07 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 10, 2005 at 12:03 UTC, 12 days later.

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

The Moon around December 29

More about this date

Wednesday, December 29, 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.