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The Moon on Friday, December 30, 2072: Waning Gibbous, 68% lit

Waning · 68.5% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 18°

Moon age

20.8days

Moon phase on December 30, 2072Waning Gibbous

Friday 30 December 2072368,793 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 30, 2072, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 68.5% of its visible face lit, 20.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

68.5%Illumination at noon UTC
20.8 dMoon age
368,793 km229,157 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (18°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 30, 2072 is on Sunday, December 25, 2072 at 07:15 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 8, 2073 at 08:11 UTC, 9 days later.

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

The Moon around December 30

More about this date

Friday, December 30, 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.