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The Moon on Tuesday, December 20, 2072: Waxing Gibbous, 77% lit

Waxing · 76.6% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 01°

Moon age

10.8days

Moon phase on December 20, 2072Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 20 December 2072397,545 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 20, 2072, the Moon will be a Waxing Gibbous: 76.6% of its visible face lit, 10.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

76.6%Illumination at noon UTC
10.8 dMoon age
397,545 km247,023 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (2°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 20, 2072 is on Sunday, December 25, 2072 at 07:15 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 9, 2072 at 16:59 UTC, 11 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 20

More about this date

Tuesday, December 20, 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.