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Moon phase calendar December 1978

Day	Phase	Illum.	Age	Rise (Tokyo)	Set (Tokyo)
1 Fri	New moon	1%	0.8	06:59	17:35
2 Sat	Waxing crescent	5%	1.8	08:02	18:35
3 Sun	Waxing crescent	11%	2.8	09:00	19:39
4 Mon	Waxing crescent	19%	3.8	09:53	20:46
5 Tue	Waxing crescent	29%	4.8	10:40	21:52
6 Wed	First quarter	40%	5.8	11:22	22:58
7 Thu	First quarter 09:33	51%	6.8	12:01	–
8 Fri	First quarter	62%	7.8	12:38	00:02
9 Sat	Waxing gibbous	72%	8.8	13:14	01:05
10 Sun	Waxing gibbous	81%	9.8	13:50	02:06
11 Mon	Waxing gibbous	89%	10.8	14:27	03:06
12 Tue	Waxing gibbous	94%	11.8	15:07	04:05
13 Wed	Full moon	98%	12.8	15:49	05:03
14 Thu	Full moon 21:30	100%	13.8	16:34	05:58
15 Fri	Full moon	100%	14.8	17:21	06:50
16 Sat	Full moon	97%	15.8	18:11	07:39
17 Sun	Waning gibbous	94%	16.8	19:03	08:24
18 Mon	Waning gibbous	88%	17.8	19:56	09:05
19 Tue	Waning gibbous	82%	18.8	20:49	09:42
20 Wed	Waning gibbous	74%	19.8	21:43	10:17
21 Thu	Last quarter	65%	20.8	22:37	10:50
22 Fri	Last quarter	56%	21.8	23:33	11:22
23 Sat	Last quarter 02:41	46%	22.8	–	11:54
24 Sun	Last quarter	36%	23.8	00:29	12:27
25 Mon	Waning crescent	27%	24.8	01:28	13:03
26 Tue	Waning crescent	18%	25.8	02:29	13:42
27 Wed	Waning crescent	10%	26.8	03:32	14:27
28 Thu	Waning crescent	4%	27.8	04:37	15:18
29 Fri	New moon	1%	28.8	05:42	16:15
30 Sat	New moon 04:35	0%	0.3	06:44	17:19
31 Sun	New moon	3%	1.3	07:41	18:27

Computed with the JPL DE421 ephemeris and Skyfield (JST). Illumination and age are for 12:00 JST; moonrise and moonset are for Tokyo. Distances are centre to centre. "Supermoon" is not a formal astronomical term.

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Daily moon phase, illumination, age and Tokyo moonrise/moonset for December 1978. Full moon: Dec 14 (398,947 km away).