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The Moon on Tuesday, September 28, 1948: Waning Crescent, 25% lit

Waning · 25.4% lit · ♌︎ Leo 05°

Moon age

25.0days

Moon phase on September 28, 1948Waning Crescent

Tuesday 28 September 1948367,051 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, September 28, 1948, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 25.4% of its visible face lit, 25.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

25.4%Illumination at noon UTC
25.0 dMoon age
367,051 km228,075 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (5°)
32.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 28, 1948 is on Saturday, September 18, 1948 at 09:43 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, October 2, 1948 at 19:42 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, September 26, 194805:07
New Moon (after)Saturday, October 2, 194819:42

The Moon around September 28

More about this date

Tuesday, September 28, 1948 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 3, 1948 to the new moon of October 2, 1948, a cycle of 29.35 days.