Skip to content
The Moon on Friday, December 28, 1928: Waning Gibbous, 96% lit

Waning · 95.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 29°

Moon age

16.3days

Moon phase on December 28, 1928Waning Gibbous

Friday 28 December 1928362,998 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 28, 1928, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 95.8% of its visible face lit, 16.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.8%Illumination at noon UTC
16.3 dMoon age
362,998 km225,556 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (30°)
32.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 28, 1928 is on Wednesday, December 26, 1928 at 19:55 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 11, 1929 at 00:28 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, December 26, 192819:55
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, January 2, 192918:44

The Moon around December 28

More about this date

Friday, December 28, 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.