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The Moon on Tuesday, December 28, 1937: Waning Crescent, 16% lit

Waning · 15.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 20°

Moon age

25.5days

Moon phase on December 28, 1937Waning Crescent

Tuesday 28 December 1937404,323 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 28, 1937, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 15.5% of its visible face lit, 25.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

15.5%Illumination at noon UTC
25.5 dMoon age
404,323 km251,234 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (20°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 28, 1937 is on Friday, December 17, 1937 at 18:52 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 1, 1938 at 18:58 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, December 24, 193714:20
New Moon (after)Saturday, January 1, 193818:58

The Moon around December 28

More about this date

Tuesday, December 28, 1937 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 2, 1937 to the new moon of January 1, 1938, a cycle of 29.82 days.