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The Moon on Wednesday, June 27, 1928: Waxing Gibbous, 74% lit

Waxing · 73.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 03°

Moon age

9.6days

Moon phase on June 27, 1928Waxing Gibbous

Wednesday 27 June 1928404,337 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, June 27, 1928, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 73.7% of its visible face lit, 9.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

73.7%Illumination at noon UTC
9.6 dMoon age
404,337 km251,243 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (4°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 27, 1928 is on Tuesday, July 3, 1928 at 02:49 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, June 17, 1928 at 20:42 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, June 24, 192822:47
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, July 3, 192802:49

The Moon around June 27

More about this date

Wednesday, June 27, 1928 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 17, 1928 to the new moon of July 17, 1928, a cycle of 29.33 days.