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The Moon on Friday, August 28, 1942: Waning Gibbous, 93% lit

Waning · 93.2% lit · ♈︎ Aries 04°

Moon age

16.4days

Moon phase on August 28, 1942Waning Gibbous

Friday 28 August 1942380,543 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 28, 1942, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 93.2% of its visible face lit, 16.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

93.2%Illumination at noon UTC
16.4 dMoon age
380,543 km236,458 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (5°)
31.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 28, 1942 is on Wednesday, August 26, 1942 at 03:46 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 10, 1942 at 15:53 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, August 26, 194203:46
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, September 2, 194215:42

The Moon around August 28

More about this date

Friday, August 28, 1942 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 12, 1942 to the new moon of September 10, 1942, a cycle of 29.56 days.