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The Moon on Thursday, December 22, 2072: Waxing Gibbous, 91% lit

Waxing · 91.0% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 26°

Moon age

12.8days

Moon phase on December 22, 2072Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 22 December 2072388,631 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 22, 2072, the Moon will be a Waxing Gibbous: 91.0% of its visible face lit, 12.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

91.0%Illumination at noon UTC
12.8 dMoon age
388,631 km241,484 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (27°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 22, 2072 is on Sunday, December 25, 2072 at 07:15 UTC, 3 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 9, 2072 at 16:59 UTC, 13 days earlier.

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

The Moon around December 22

More about this date

Thursday, December 22, 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.