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The Moon on Tuesday, December 26, 2017: First Quarter, 51% lit

Waxing · 51.3% lit · ♈︎ Aries 06°

First Quarter at

09:20UTC

Moon phase on December 26, 2017First Quarter

Tuesday 26 December 2017384,952 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 26, 2017, the Moon was a First Quarter: 51.3% of its visible face lit, 8.2 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

51.3%Illumination at noon UTC
8.2 dMoon age
384,952 km239,198 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (6°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 26, 2017 is on Tuesday, January 2, 2018 at 02:24 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 18, 2017 at 06:31 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, December 18, 201706:31
First Quarter (this day)Tuesday, December 26, 201709:20
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, January 2, 201802:24

The Moon around December 26

More about this date

Tuesday, December 26, 2017 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 18, 2017 to the new moon of January 17, 2018, a cycle of 29.82 days.