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The Moon on Sunday, December 28, 1958: Waning Gibbous, 94% lit

Waning · 94.1% lit · ♌︎ Leo 04°

Moon age

17.8days

Moon phase on December 28, 1958Waning Gibbous

Sunday 28 December 1958385,710 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 28, 1958, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 94.1% of its visible face lit, 17.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

94.1%Illumination at noon UTC
17.8 dMoon age
385,710 km239,669 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (4°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 28, 1958 is on Friday, December 26, 1958 at 03:54 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 9, 1959 at 05:34 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, December 26, 195803:54
Last Quarter (after)Friday, January 2, 195910:51

The Moon around December 28

More about this date

Sunday, December 28, 1958 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 10, 1958 to the new moon of January 9, 1959, a cycle of 29.51 days.