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The Moon on Sunday, August 28, 1938: Waxing Crescent, 12% lit

Waxing · 11.9% lit · ♎︎ Libra 14°

Moon age

3.0days

Moon phase on August 28, 1938Waxing Crescent

Sunday 28 August 1938377,819 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 28, 1938, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 11.9% of its visible face lit, 3.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

11.9%Illumination at noon UTC
3.0 dMoon age
377,819 km234,766 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (15°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 28, 1938 is on Friday, September 9, 1938 at 20:08 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, August 25, 1938 at 11:17 UTC, 3 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, August 25, 193811:17
First Quarter (after)Thursday, September 1, 193817:28

The Moon around August 28

More about this date

Sunday, August 28, 1938 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 25, 1938 to the new moon of September 23, 1938, a cycle of 29.39 days.