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The Moon on Monday, December 28, 1959: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 2.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 17°

Moon age

28.1days

Moon phase on December 28, 1959Waning Crescent

Monday 28 December 1959357,994 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, December 28, 1959, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 2.8% of its visible face lit, 28.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

2.8%Illumination at noon UTC
28.1 dMoon age
357,994 km222,447 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (18°)
33.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 28, 1959 is on Tuesday, December 15, 1959 at 04:49 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, December 29, 1959 at 19:09 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, December 23, 195903:28
New Moon (after)Tuesday, December 29, 195919:09

The Moon around December 28

More about this date

Monday, December 28, 1959 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 30, 1959 to the new moon of December 29, 1959, a cycle of 29.43 days.