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The Moon on Tuesday, December 28, 1976: First Quarter, 52% lit

Waxing · 51.8% lit · ♈︎ Aries 08°

First Quarter at

07:48UTC

Moon phase on December 28, 1976First Quarter

Tuesday 28 December 1976400,079 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 28, 1976, the Moon was a First Quarter: 51.8% of its visible face lit, 7.4 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

51.8%Illumination at noon UTC
7.4 dMoon age
400,079 km248,597 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (9°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 28, 1976 is on Wednesday, January 5, 1977 at 12:11 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, December 21, 1976 at 02:08 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, December 21, 197602:08
First Quarter (this day)Tuesday, December 28, 197607:48
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, January 5, 197712:11

The Moon around December 28

More about this date

Tuesday, December 28, 1976 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 21, 1976 to the new moon of January 19, 1977, a cycle of 29.50 days.