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The Moon on Friday, December 22, 2051: Waning Gibbous, 74% lit

Waning · 73.6% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 02°

Moon age

19.1days

Moon phase on December 22, 2051Waning Gibbous

Friday 22 December 2051389,130 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 22, 2051, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 73.6% of its visible face lit, 19.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

73.6%Illumination at noon UTC
19.1 dMoon age
389,130 km241,794 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (3°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 22, 2051 is on Sunday, December 17, 2051 at 16:05 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 2, 2052 at 03:05 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, December 17, 205116:05
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, December 24, 205123:21

The Moon around December 22

More about this date

Friday, December 22, 2051 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 3, 2051 to the new moon of January 2, 2052, a cycle of 29.73 days.