Moon phase for 31 December 2008 Wednesday

Moon phase, position of the lunar cycle, dates of full moon and new moon.

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31 December 2008 Wednesday
Time: 12:00
JD 2454832

Universal Coordinated Time
Casablanca, Monrovia

UTC--12 Dateline Standard Time
Eniwetok, Kwajalein
UTC--11 Samoa Standard Time
Midway Is, Samoa
UTC--10 Alaskan / Hawaiian Standard Time
Hawaii, Alaska
UTC--8 Pacific Standard Time
Pacific Time (US & Canada); Tijuana
UTC--7 Mountain / Mexican Standard Time
Mountain Time (US & Canada), Arizona, Chihuahua, La Paz, Mazatlan
UTC--6 Central Standard Time
Central Time (US & Canada), Mexico City, Tegucigalpa, Saskatchewan, Central America
UTC--5 East Standard Time
Eastern Time (US & Canada), Indiana (East), Bogota, Lima, Quito
UTC--4 Atlantic Standard Time
Atlantic Time (Canada), Caracas, La Paz, Santiago
UTC--3 South America Eastern Standard Time
Brasilia, Buenos Aires, Georgetown, Mid-Atlantic, Greenland
UTC--1 Azores Standard Time
Azores, Cape Verde Is
UTC Universal Coordinated Time
Casablanca, Monrovia
UTC Greenwich Mean Time
Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London
UTC+1 Central Europe Standard Time
Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris, Vilnius, Brussels, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Skopje, Sofija, Zagreb, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague, Warsaw, West Central Africa
UTC+2 East Europe Standard Time
Sofia, Bucharest, Athens, Istanbul, Minsk, Helsinki, Riga, Tallinn, Cairo, Israel, Harare, Pretoria
UTC+3 Russian Standard Time
Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Kuwait, Riyadh, Nairobi
UTC+4 Arabian Standard Time
Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Baku, Tbilisi, Kabul
UTC+5 West Asia Standard Time
Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent
UTC+6 India Standard Time
Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, New Delhi
UTC+6 Nepal Standard Time
Kathmandu
UTC+6 Northern Central Asia Standard Time
Almaty, Novosibirsk, Columbo, Dhaka
UTC+7 Myanmar Standard Time
Rangoon
UTC+7 South-East Asia Standard Time
Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta, Krasnoyarsk
UTC+8 West Australia / China Standard Time
Perth, Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Urumqi, Singapore, Taipei, Irkutsk, Ulaan Bataar
UTC+9 Tokyo / Korea Standard Time
Osako, Sapporo, Tokyo, Seoul, Yakutsk
UTC+10 Central Australia Standard Time
Adelaide
UTC+10 East Australia Standard Time
Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart, Guam, Port Moresby, Vladivostok, Magadan, Solomon Is, New Caledonia
UTC+12 New Zealand / Fiji Standard Time
Auckland, Wellington, Fiji, Kamchatka, Marshall Is
UTC+13 Tonga Standard Time
Nuku'alofa

Lunar phase on 31 December 2008 Wednesday is Waxing Crescent.
The current moon phase is from 2008-12-27 12:23 to 2009-01-04 11:56.
The moon is in zodiac sign Aquarius .

The moon is Waxing Crescent on 31 December 2008 Wednesday

Moon phases from
the current moon cycle:

New Moon
on 2008-12-27 12:23
before 4 days

First Quarter
on 2009-01-04 11:56
after 4 days

Full Moon
on 2009-01-11 03:27
after 10.6 days

Last Quarter
on 2009-01-18 02:47
after 17.6 days

New Moon (next)
on 2009-01-26 07:56
after 25.8 days

The moon is growing bigger (young moon)
Fraction of the moon: 0.121132137315
Illumination of the moon disk: 14 %

Moon angular diameter: 0.5 °
Sun angular diameter: 0.54 °

Moon distance:
396197.74 km

Sun distance:
147099610.4 km

Moon phases for the days after 31 December 2008

Thursday
1 January

Waxing Crescent
21% / 0.15
Pisces
Friday
2 January

Waxing Crescent
30% / 0.18
Pisces
Saturday
3 January

Waxing Crescent
40% / 0.22
Aries
Sunday
4 January

First Quarter
50% / 0.25
Aries
Monday
5 January

First Quarter
61% / 0.29
Aries
Tuesday
6 January

Waxing Gibbous
72% / 0.32
Taurus
Wednesday
7 January

Waxing Gibbous
81% / 0.36
Taurus

2008 December

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	31

For calculation of the lunar phase and the course of the moon through the zodiac is taken the moon fraction at 12 o'clock noon on the given date.

When crossing the zodiac from one zodiac sign to another, often for a short time Moon is Void of course moon. This phenomenon is not marked in the table above.

From New moon to Full moon the Moon is growing bigger (young moon), and after Full moon it is growing small (old moon).

The time the Moon makes a complete orbit around the Earth (sidereal period) is 27.321661 days. The time between two consecutive New moon phases is 29.53058867 days.