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The Moon on Friday, December 13, 2013: Waxing Gibbous, 86% lit

Waxing · 86.3% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 08°

Moon age

10.5days

Moon phase on December 13, 2013Waxing Gibbous

Friday 13 December 2013393,569 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 13, 2013, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 86.3% of its visible face lit, 10.5 days after the new moon and growing each night.

86.3%Illumination at noon UTC
10.5 dMoon age
393,569 km244,552 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (8°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 13, 2013 is on Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at 09:28 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at 00:22 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, December 9, 201315:12
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, December 17, 201309:28

The Moon around December 13

More about this date

Friday, December 13, 2013 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 3, 2013 to the new moon of January 1, 2014, a cycle of 29.45 days.