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The Moon on Sunday, July 28, 1940: Waning Crescent, 40% lit

Waning · 40.3% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 16°

Moon age

23.0days

Moon phase on July 28, 1940Waning Crescent

Sunday 28 July 1940398,029 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, July 28, 1940, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 40.3% of its visible face lit, 23.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

40.3%Illumination at noon UTC
23.0 dMoon age
398,029 km247,324 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (17°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 28, 1940 is on Friday, July 19, 1940 at 09:55 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 3, 1940 at 20:09 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, July 27, 194011:30
New Moon (after)Saturday, August 3, 194020:09

The Moon around July 28

More about this date

Sunday, July 28, 1940 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 5, 1940 to the new moon of August 3, 1940, a cycle of 29.36 days.