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The Moon on Friday, August 28, 1992: New Moon, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.4% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 10°

New Moon at

02:42UTC

Moon phase on August 28, 1992New Moon

Friday 28 August 1992357,930 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 28, 1992, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.4% of its visible face lit, 29.7 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.4%Illumination at noon UTC
29.7 dMoon age
357,930 km222,408 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (11°)
33.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 28, 1992 is on Saturday, September 12, 1992 at 02:17 UTC, 15 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 28, 1992 at 02:42 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, August 21, 199210:01
New Moon (this day)Friday, August 28, 199202:42
First Quarter (after)Thursday, September 3, 199222:39

The Moon around August 28

More about this date

Friday, August 28, 1992 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 28, 1992 to the new moon of September 26, 1992, a cycle of 29.33 days.