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The Moon on Wednesday, December 28, 1988: Waning Gibbous, 75% lit

Waning · 74.5% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 07°

Moon age

19.3days

Moon phase on December 28, 1988Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 28 December 1988402,638 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, December 28, 1988, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 74.5% of its visible face lit, 19.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

74.5%Illumination at noon UTC
19.3 dMoon age
402,638 km250,187 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (8°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 28, 1988 is on Friday, December 23, 1988 at 05:29 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 7, 1989 at 19:22 UTC, 10 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, December 23, 198805:29
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, December 31, 198804:57

The Moon around December 28

More about this date

Wednesday, December 28, 1988 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 9, 1988 to the new moon of January 7, 1989, a cycle of 29.57 days.