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The Moon on Sunday, August 28, 1921: Waning Crescent, 29% lit

Waning · 28.9% lit · ♊︎ Gemini 29°

Moon age

24.7days

Moon phase on August 28, 1921Waning Crescent

Sunday 28 August 1921369,698 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 28, 1921, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 28.9% of its visible face lit, 24.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

28.9%Illumination at noon UTC
24.7 dMoon age
369,698 km229,720 mi from Earth
♊︎ GeminiMoon sign (30°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 28, 1921 is on Thursday, August 18, 1921 at 15:28 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 2, 1921 at 03:33 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, August 26, 192112:51
New Moon (after)Friday, September 2, 192103:33

The Moon around August 28

More about this date

Sunday, August 28, 1921 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 3, 1921 to the new moon of September 2, 1921, a cycle of 29.30 days.