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The Moon on Tuesday, December 30, 2014: Waxing Gibbous, 69% lit

Waxing · 68.7% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 00°

Moon age

8.4days

Moon phase on December 30, 2014Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 30 December 2014378,432 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 30, 2014, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 68.7% of its visible face lit, 8.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

68.7%Illumination at noon UTC
8.4 dMoon age
378,432 km235,147 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (1°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 30, 2014 is on Monday, January 5, 2015 at 04:54 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 22, 2014 at 01:36 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, December 28, 201418:32
Full Moon (after)Monday, January 5, 201504:54

The Moon around December 30

More about this date

Tuesday, December 30, 2014 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 22, 2014 to the new moon of January 20, 2015, a cycle of 29.48 days.