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The Moon on Sunday, December 9, 1928: Waning Crescent, 6% lit

Waning · 6.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 17°

Moon age

27.1days

Moon phase on December 9, 1928Waning Crescent

Sunday 9 December 1928405,282 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 9, 1928, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 6.4% of its visible face lit, 27.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

6.4%Illumination at noon UTC
27.1 dMoon age
405,282 km251,830 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (18°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 9, 1928 is on Tuesday, November 27, 1928 at 09:05 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, December 12, 1928 at 05:06 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, December 4, 192802:32
New Moon (after)Wednesday, December 12, 192805:06

The Moon around December 9

More about this date

Sunday, December 9, 1928 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 12, 1928 to the new moon of December 12, 1928, a cycle of 29.81 days.