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The Moon on Thursday, December 8, 2016: Waxing Gibbous, 62% lit

Waxing · 62.3% lit · ♈︎ Aries 01°

Moon age

9.0days

Moon phase on December 8, 2016Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 8 December 2016373,120 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 8, 2016, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 62.3% of its visible face lit, 9.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

62.3%Illumination at noon UTC
9.0 dMoon age
373,120 km231,846 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (1°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 8, 2016 is on Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 00:06 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 12:18 UTC, 9 days earlier.

The Moon around December 8

More about this date

Thursday, December 8, 2016 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 29, 2016 to the new moon of December 29, 2016, a cycle of 29.77 days.