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The Moon on Sunday, December 14, 2008: Waning Gibbous, 95% lit

Waning · 95.1% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 18°

Moon age

16.8days

Moon phase on December 14, 2008Waning Gibbous

Sunday 14 December 2008359,082 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 14, 2008, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 95.1% of its visible face lit, 16.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.1%Illumination at noon UTC
16.8 dMoon age
359,082 km223,123 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (19°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 14, 2008 is on Friday, December 12, 2008 at 16:37 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 12:23 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, December 12, 200816:37
Last Quarter (after)Friday, December 19, 200810:29

The Moon around December 14

More about this date

Sunday, December 14, 2008 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 27, 2008 to the new moon of December 27, 2008, a cycle of 29.81 days.