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The Moon on Saturday, November 28, 1959: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 5.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 09°

Moon age

27.6days

Moon phase on November 28, 1959Waning Crescent

Saturday 28 November 1959360,656 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, November 28, 1959, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 5.3% of its visible face lit, 27.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

5.3%Illumination at noon UTC
27.6 dMoon age
360,656 km224,101 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (9°)
33.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 28, 1959 is on Sunday, November 15, 1959 at 09:42 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, November 30, 1959 at 08:46 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, November 23, 195913:03
New Moon (after)Monday, November 30, 195908:46

The Moon around November 28

More about this date

Saturday, November 28, 1959 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 31, 1959 to the new moon of November 30, 1959, a cycle of 29.42 days.