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The Moon on Sunday, December 11, 2005: Waxing Gibbous, 82% lit

Waxing · 81.8% lit · ♈︎ Aries 29°

Moon age

9.9days

Moon phase on December 11, 2005Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 11 December 2005379,179 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 11, 2005, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 81.8% of its visible face lit, 9.9 days after the new moon and growing each night.

81.8%Illumination at noon UTC
9.9 dMoon age
379,179 km235,611 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (29°)
31.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 11, 2005 is on Thursday, December 15, 2005 at 16:16 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 1, 2005 at 15:01 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, December 8, 200509:36
Full Moon (after)Thursday, December 15, 200516:16

The Moon around December 11

More about this date

Sunday, December 11, 2005 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 1, 2005 to the new moon of December 31, 2005, a cycle of 29.51 days.