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The Moon on Tuesday, December 9, 2014: Waning Gibbous, 91% lit

Waning · 90.9% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 22°

Moon age

17.0days

Moon phase on December 9, 2014Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 9 December 2014398,024 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 9, 2014, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 90.9% of its visible face lit, 17.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

90.9%Illumination at noon UTC
17.0 dMoon age
398,024 km247,320 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (22°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 9, 2014 is on Saturday, December 6, 2014 at 12:27 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 22, 2014 at 01:36 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, December 6, 201412:27
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, December 14, 201412:51

The Moon around December 9

More about this date

Tuesday, December 9, 2014 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 22, 2014 to the new moon of December 22, 2014, a cycle of 29.54 days.