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The Moon on Sunday, December 26, 2010: Waning Gibbous, 69% lit

Waning · 68.9% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 12°

Moon age

20.8days

Moon phase on December 26, 2010Waning Gibbous

Sunday 26 December 2010368,822 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 26, 2010, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 68.9% of its visible face lit, 20.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

68.9%Illumination at noon UTC
20.8 dMoon age
368,822 km229,175 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (12°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 26, 2010 is on Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 08:14 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at 09:03 UTC, 9 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, December 21, 201008:14
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, December 28, 201004:19

The Moon around December 26

More about this date

Sunday, December 26, 2010 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 5, 2010 to the new moon of January 4, 2011, a cycle of 29.64 days.