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The Moon on Thursday, December 28, 1950: Waning Gibbous, 85% lit

Waning · 85.0% lit · ♌︎ Leo 21°

Moon age

19.1days

Moon phase on December 28, 1950Waning Gibbous

Thursday 28 December 1950393,815 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 28, 1950, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 85.0% of its visible face lit, 19.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

85.0%Illumination at noon UTC
19.1 dMoon age
393,815 km244,705 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (22°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 28, 1950 is on Sunday, December 24, 1950 at 10:23 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 7, 1951 at 20:10 UTC, 10 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, December 24, 195010:23
Last Quarter (after)Monday, January 1, 195105:11

The Moon around December 28

More about this date

Thursday, December 28, 1950 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 9, 1950 to the new moon of January 7, 1951, a cycle of 29.45 days.