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The Moon on Friday, December 21, 1928: Waxing Gibbous, 65% lit

Waxing · 64.6% lit · ♈︎ Aries 16°

Moon age

9.3days

Moon phase on December 21, 1928Waxing Gibbous

Friday 21 December 1928373,872 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 21, 1928, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 64.6% of its visible face lit, 9.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

64.6%Illumination at noon UTC
9.3 dMoon age
373,872 km232,313 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (16°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 21, 1928 is on Wednesday, December 26, 1928 at 19:55 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, December 12, 1928 at 05:06 UTC, 9 days earlier.

The Moon around December 21

More about this date

Friday, December 21, 1928 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 12, 1928 to the new moon of January 11, 1929, a cycle of 29.81 days.