Skip to content
The Moon on Wednesday, August 28, 1940: Waning Crescent, 27% lit

Waning · 26.9% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 02°

Moon age

24.7days

Moon phase on August 28, 1940Waning Crescent

Wednesday 28 August 1940382,797 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 28, 1940, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 26.9% of its visible face lit, 24.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

26.9%Illumination at noon UTC
24.7 dMoon age
382,797 km237,859 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (3°)
31.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 28, 1940 is on Saturday, August 17, 1940 at 23:03 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, September 2, 1940 at 04:15 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, August 26, 194003:33
New Moon (after)Monday, September 2, 194004:15

The Moon around August 28

More about this date

Wednesday, August 28, 1940 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 3, 1940 to the new moon of September 2, 1940, a cycle of 29.34 days.