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Moon Phase for Friday December 19, 2008
Last Quarter — 50% Illuminated
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Tuesday Dec 16, 2008 
68% — Waning Gibbous |
Wednesday Dec 17, 2008 
60% — Waning Gibbous |
Thursday Dec 18, 2008
60% — Waning Gibbous |
Saturday Dec 20, 2008 
42% — Waning Crescent |
Sunday Dec 21, 2008 
34% — Waning Crescent |
Monday Dec 22, 2008 
26% — Waning Crescent |
Last Quarter Phase
The Last Quarter phase is sometimes called a Last Quarter Moon. This phase occurs roughly 3 weeks after the New Moon when the Moon is three quarter of the way through it's orbit around the earth. If you live in the northern hemisphere the Moons left side will be illuminated and the right side will be dark.
For those of you in the southern hemisphere it will be the opposite with the right side illuminated. On the day of the Third Quarter phase the Moon will rise around midnight on the eastern horizon and set in the west around noon the next day.
In the days following the Third Quarter Phase the Moon's illumination will decrees each day until the New Moon.