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The Moon on Tuesday, December 5, 2017: Waning Gibbous, 95% lit

Waning · 94.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 09°

Moon age

17.0days

Moon phase on December 5, 2017Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 5 December 2017358,712 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 5, 2017, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 94.8% of its visible face lit, 17.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

94.8%Illumination at noon UTC
17.0 dMoon age
358,712 km222,893 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (10°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 5, 2017 is on Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 15:47 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 18, 2017 at 06:31 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, December 3, 201715:47
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, December 10, 201707:52

The Moon around December 5

More about this date

Tuesday, December 5, 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.