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The Moon on Friday, December 15, 2073: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.1% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 04°

Moon age

16.3days

Moon phase on December 15, 2073Waning Gibbous

Friday 15 December 2073393,946 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 15, 2073, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 99.1% of its visible face lit, 16.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.1%Illumination at noon UTC
16.3 dMoon age
393,946 km244,787 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (5°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 15, 2073 is on Thursday, December 14, 2073 at 13:49 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 28, 2073 at 16:55 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, December 14, 207313:49
Last Quarter (after)Friday, December 22, 207300:06

The Moon around December 15

More about this date

Friday, December 15, 2073 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 29, 2073 to the new moon of December 28, 2073, a cycle of 29.49 days.