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The Moon on Tuesday, December 28, 1948: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 4.1% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 13°

Moon age

27.7days

Moon phase on December 28, 1948Waning Crescent

Tuesday 28 December 1948383,226 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 28, 1948, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.1% of its visible face lit, 27.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.1%Illumination at noon UTC
27.7 dMoon age
383,226 km238,125 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (14°)
31.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 28, 1948 is on Thursday, December 16, 1948 at 09:11 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, December 30, 1948 at 09:45 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, December 23, 194805:12
New Moon (after)Thursday, December 30, 194809:45

The Moon around December 28

More about this date

Tuesday, December 28, 1948 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 30, 1948 to the new moon of December 30, 1948, a cycle of 29.63 days.