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The Moon on Sunday, December 28, 1941: Waxing Gibbous, 78% lit

Waxing · 77.7% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 10°

Moon age

10.1days

Moon phase on December 28, 1941Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 28 December 1941404,760 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 28, 1941, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 77.7% of its visible face lit, 10.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

77.7%Illumination at noon UTC
10.1 dMoon age
404,760 km251,506 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (10°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 28, 1941 is on Friday, January 2, 1942 at 15:42 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 18, 1941 at 10:18 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, December 25, 194110:44
Full Moon (after)Friday, January 2, 194215:42

The Moon around December 28

More about this date

Sunday, December 28, 1941 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 18, 1941 to the new moon of January 16, 1942, a cycle of 29.47 days.