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The Moon on Sunday, December 28, 1975: Waning Crescent, 20% lit

Waning · 19.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 13°

Moon age

25.5days

Moon phase on December 28, 1975Waning Crescent

Sunday 28 December 1975371,678 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 28, 1975, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 19.5% of its visible face lit, 25.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

19.5%Illumination at noon UTC
25.5 dMoon age
371,678 km230,950 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (14°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 28, 1975 is on Thursday, December 18, 1975 at 14:40 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 1, 1976 at 14:40 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, December 25, 197514:52
New Moon (after)Thursday, January 1, 197614:40

The Moon around December 28

More about this date

Sunday, December 28, 1975 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 3, 1975 to the new moon of January 1, 1976, a cycle of 29.58 days.