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The Moon on Thursday, August 28, 1941: Waxing Crescent, 38% lit

Waxing · 37.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 20°

Moon age

5.7days

Moon phase on August 28, 1941Waxing Crescent

Thursday 28 August 1941368,940 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, August 28, 1941, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 37.7% of its visible face lit, 5.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

37.7%Illumination at noon UTC
5.7 dMoon age
368,940 km229,249 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (20°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 28, 1941 is on Friday, September 5, 1941 at 17:36 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 22, 1941 at 18:34 UTC, 6 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, August 22, 194118:34
First Quarter (after)Friday, August 29, 194114:04

The Moon around August 28

More about this date

Thursday, August 28, 1941 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 22, 1941 to the new moon of September 21, 1941, a cycle of 29.42 days.