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The Moon on Sunday, December 28, 1930: First Quarter, 53% lit

Waxing · 53.3% lit · ♈︎ Aries 09°

First Quarter at

03:59UTC

Moon phase on December 28, 1930First Quarter

Sunday 28 December 1930400,422 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 28, 1930, the Moon was a First Quarter: 53.3% of its visible face lit, 8.4 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

53.3%Illumination at noon UTC
8.4 dMoon age
400,422 km248,811 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (10°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 28, 1930 is on Sunday, January 4, 1931 at 13:15 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 20, 1930 at 01:24 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, December 20, 193001:24
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, December 28, 193003:59
Full Moon (after)Sunday, January 4, 193113:15

The Moon around December 28

More about this date

Sunday, December 28, 1930 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 20, 1930 to the new moon of January 18, 1931, a cycle of 29.72 days.