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The Moon on Thursday, December 28, 2056: Waning Gibbous, 64% lit

Waning · 63.7% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 21°

Moon age

21.6days

Moon phase on December 28, 2056Waning Gibbous

Thursday 28 December 2056381,914 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 28, 2056, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 63.7% of its visible face lit, 21.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

63.7%Illumination at noon UTC
21.6 dMoon age
381,914 km237,310 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (22°)
31.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 28, 2056 is on Friday, December 22, 2056 at 01:34 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 5, 2057 at 09:49 UTC, 8 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, December 22, 205601:34
Last Quarter (after)Friday, December 29, 205618:22

The Moon around December 28

More about this date

Thursday, December 28, 2056 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 6, 2056 to the new moon of January 5, 2057, a cycle of 29.47 days.