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The Moon on Sunday, December 27, 2009: Waxing Gibbous, 77% lit

Waxing · 77.0% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 08°

Moon age

11.0days

Moon phase on December 27, 2009Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 27 December 2009380,510 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 27, 2009, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 77.0% of its visible face lit, 11.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

77.0%Illumination at noon UTC
11.0 dMoon age
380,510 km236,438 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (9°)
31.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 27, 2009 is on Thursday, December 31, 2009 at 19:13 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 12:02 UTC, 11 days earlier.

The Moon around December 27

More about this date

Sunday, December 27, 2009 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 16, 2009 to the new moon of January 15, 2010, a cycle of 29.80 days.