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The Moon on Tuesday, December 20, 2005: Waning Gibbous, 79% lit

Waning · 79.4% lit · ♌︎ Leo 22°

Moon age

18.9days

Moon phase on December 20, 2005Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 20 December 2005404,783 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 20, 2005, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 79.4% of its visible face lit, 18.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

79.4%Illumination at noon UTC
18.9 dMoon age
404,783 km251,520 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (23°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 20, 2005 is on Thursday, December 15, 2005 at 16:16 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 31, 2005 at 03:12 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, December 15, 200516:16
Last Quarter (after)Friday, December 23, 200519:36

The Moon around December 20

More about this date

Tuesday, December 20, 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.