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The Moon on Wednesday, December 28, 1938: Waxing Crescent, 36% lit

Waxing · 36.0% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 19°

Moon age

6.7days

Moon phase on December 28, 1938Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 28 December 1938399,413 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 28, 1938, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 36.0% of its visible face lit, 6.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

36.0%Illumination at noon UTC
6.7 dMoon age
399,413 km248,184 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (20°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 28, 1938 is on Thursday, January 5, 1939 at 21:30 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, December 21, 1938 at 18:07 UTC, 7 days earlier.

The Moon around December 28

More about this date

Wednesday, December 28, 1938 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 21, 1938 to the new moon of January 20, 1939, a cycle of 29.81 days.