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The Moon on Sunday, April 8, 1928: Waning Gibbous, 90% lit

Waning · 90.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 24°

Moon age

17.6days

Moon phase on April 8, 1928Waning Gibbous

Sunday 8 April 1928405,749 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, April 8, 1928, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 90.2% of its visible face lit, 17.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

90.2%Illumination at noon UTC
17.6 dMoon age
405,749 km252,121 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (25°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 8, 1928 is on Thursday, April 5, 1928 at 03:38 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, April 20, 1928 at 05:25 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, April 5, 192803:38
Last Quarter (after)Friday, April 13, 192808:09

The Moon around April 8

More about this date

Sunday, April 8, 1928 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 21, 1928 to the new moon of April 20, 1928, a cycle of 29.37 days.