December 25, 2026
The sky over Kolkata
Christmas
Moon
Waning gibbous
97% illuminated
Moonrise / moonset
6:50 PM – 7:51 AM
Also up that night
- M45 — Pleiades81° up
- M44 — Praesepe14° up
- M31 — Andromeda54° up
- M42 — Orion Nebula45° up
- M47 — 15° up
- M41 — 22° up
Around 21:00 local time the moon was up over Kolkata — a waning gibbous, 97% lit. Local time here is estimated from Kolkata's longitude rather than looked up from a timezone database — within about an hour almost everywhere (see the free generator for the same trade-off spelled out).
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