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The Moon on Tuesday, December 15, 2048: Waxing Gibbous, 80% lit

Waxing · 80.5% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 01°

Moon age

9.9days

Moon phase on December 15, 2048Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 15 December 2048396,621 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 15, 2048, the Moon will be a Waxing Gibbous: 80.5% of its visible face lit, 9.9 days after the new moon and growing each night.

80.5%Illumination at noon UTC
9.9 dMoon age
396,621 km246,449 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (2°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 15, 2048 is on Sunday, December 20, 2048 at 06:39 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 5, 2048 at 15:30 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, December 12, 204807:29
Full Moon (after)Sunday, December 20, 204806:39

The Moon around December 15

More about this date

Tuesday, December 15, 2048 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 5, 2048 to the new moon of January 4, 2049, a cycle of 29.45 days.