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The Moon on Wednesday, December 28, 2072: Waning Gibbous, 87% lit

Waning · 87.2% lit · ♌︎ Leo 19°

Moon age

18.8days

Moon phase on December 28, 2072Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 28 December 2072368,489 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 28, 2072, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 87.2% of its visible face lit, 18.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

87.2%Illumination at noon UTC
18.8 dMoon age
368,489 km228,968 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (20°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 28, 2072 is on Sunday, December 25, 2072 at 07:15 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 8, 2073 at 08:11 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, December 25, 207207:15
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, January 1, 207303:27

The Moon around December 28

More about this date

Wednesday, December 28, 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.