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The Moon on Wednesday, December 18, 2013: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 98.7% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 08°

Moon age

15.5days

Moon phase on December 18, 2013Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 18 December 2013405,434 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 18, 2013, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 98.7% of its visible face lit, 15.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

98.7%Illumination at noon UTC
15.5 dMoon age
405,434 km251,925 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (9°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 18, 2013 is on Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at 09:28 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, January 1, 2014 at 11:14 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, December 17, 201309:28
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, December 25, 201313:48

The Moon around December 18

More about this date

Wednesday, December 18, 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.