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The Moon on Monday, August 28, 1944: Waxing Gibbous, 66% lit

Waxing · 65.7% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 23°

Moon age

9.6days

Moon phase on August 28, 1944Waxing Gibbous

Monday 28 August 1944381,771 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, August 28, 1944, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 65.7% of its visible face lit, 9.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

65.7%Illumination at noon UTC
9.6 dMoon age
381,771 km237,222 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (23°)
31.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 28, 1944 is on Saturday, September 2, 1944 at 20:21 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 18, 1944 at 20:25 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, August 26, 194423:39
Full Moon (after)Saturday, September 2, 194420:21

The Moon around August 28

More about this date

Monday, August 28, 1944 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 18, 1944 to the new moon of September 17, 1944, a cycle of 29.68 days.