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The Moon on Sunday, December 18, 2072: Waxing Gibbous, 59% lit

Waxing · 58.8% lit · ♈︎ Aries 07°

Moon age

8.8days

Moon phase on December 18, 2072Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 18 December 2072403,189 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 18, 2072, the Moon will be a Waxing Gibbous: 58.8% of its visible face lit, 8.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

58.8%Illumination at noon UTC
8.8 dMoon age
403,189 km250,530 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (7°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 18, 2072 is on Sunday, December 25, 2072 at 07:15 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 9, 2072 at 16:59 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, December 17, 207213:50
Full Moon (after)Sunday, December 25, 207207:15

The Moon around December 18

More about this date

Sunday, December 18, 2072 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 9, 2072 to the new moon of January 8, 2073, a cycle of 29.63 days.