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The Moon on Friday, December 1, 2017: Waxing Gibbous, 93% lit

Waxing · 93.1% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 09°

Moon age

13.0days

Moon phase on December 1, 2017Waxing Gibbous

Friday 1 December 2017365,086 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 1, 2017, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 93.1% of its visible face lit, 13.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

93.1%Illumination at noon UTC
13.0 dMoon age
365,086 km226,854 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (9°)
32.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 1, 2017 is on Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 15:47 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 11:42 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, November 26, 201717:03
Full Moon (after)Sunday, December 3, 201715:47

The Moon around December 1

More about this date

Friday, December 1, 2017 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 18, 2017 to the new moon of December 18, 2017, a cycle of 29.78 days.