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The Moon on Friday, December 28, 1945: Waning Crescent, 30% lit

Waning · 30.1% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 00°

Moon age

23.7days

Moon phase on December 28, 1945Waning Crescent

Friday 28 December 1945404,772 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, December 28, 1945, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 30.1% of its visible face lit, 23.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

30.1%Illumination at noon UTC
23.7 dMoon age
404,772 km251,513 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (0°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 28, 1945 is on Wednesday, December 19, 1945 at 02:17 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 3, 1946 at 12:30 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, December 26, 194508:00
New Moon (after)Thursday, January 3, 194612:30

The Moon around December 28

More about this date

Friday, December 28, 1945 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 4, 1945 to the new moon of January 3, 1946, a cycle of 29.77 days.