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The Moon on Sunday, May 28, 1933: Waxing Crescent, 14% lit

Waxing · 14.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 21°

Moon age

4.1days

Moon phase on May 28, 1933Waxing Crescent

Sunday 28 May 1933403,046 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 28, 1933, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 14.5% of its visible face lit, 4.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

14.5%Illumination at noon UTC
4.1 dMoon age
403,046 km250,441 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (21°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 28, 1933 is on Thursday, June 8, 1933 at 05:05 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, May 24, 1933 at 10:07 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Wednesday, May 24, 193310:07
First Quarter (after)Thursday, June 1, 193311:53

The Moon around May 28

More about this date

Sunday, May 28, 1933 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 24, 1933 to the new moon of June 23, 1933, a cycle of 29.64 days.