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The Moon on Thursday, December 29, 2072: Waning Gibbous, 79% lit

Waning · 78.6% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 03°

Moon age

19.8days

Moon phase on December 29, 2072Waning Gibbous

Thursday 29 December 2072368,237 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 29, 2072, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 78.6% of its visible face lit, 19.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

78.6%Illumination at noon UTC
19.8 dMoon age
368,237 km228,812 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (4°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 29, 2072 is on Sunday, December 25, 2072 at 07:15 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 8, 2073 at 08:11 UTC, 10 days later.

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

The Moon around December 29

More about this date

Thursday, December 29, 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.