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The Moon on Sunday, December 11, 2011: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.2% lit · ♊︎ Gemini 29°

Moon age

16.2days

Moon phase on December 11, 2011Waning Gibbous

Sunday 11 December 2011394,531 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 11, 2011, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.2% of its visible face lit, 16.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.2%Illumination at noon UTC
16.2 dMoon age
394,531 km245,150 mi from Earth
♊︎ GeminiMoon sign (29°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 11, 2011 is on Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 14:37 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 24, 2011 at 18:06 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, December 10, 201114:37
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, December 18, 201100:48

The Moon around December 11

More about this date

Sunday, December 11, 2011 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 25, 2011 to the new moon of December 24, 2011, a cycle of 29.50 days.