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The Moon on Thursday, November 28, 1940: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 1.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 24°

Moon age

28.6days

Moon phase on November 28, 1940Waning Crescent

Thursday 28 November 1940362,740 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, November 28, 1940, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.2% of its visible face lit, 28.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.2%Illumination at noon UTC
28.6 dMoon age
362,740 km225,396 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (24°)
32.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 28, 1940 is on Friday, November 15, 1940 at 02:23 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, November 29, 1940 at 08:42 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, November 22, 194016:36
New Moon (after)Friday, November 29, 194008:42

The Moon around November 28

More about this date

Thursday, November 28, 1940 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 30, 1940 to the new moon of November 29, 1940, a cycle of 29.44 days.