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The Moon on Sunday, May 28, 1995: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.8% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 26°

Moon age

28.8days

Moon phase on May 28, 1995Waning Crescent

Sunday 28 May 1995405,387 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 28, 1995, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.8% of its visible face lit, 28.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.8%Illumination at noon UTC
28.8 dMoon age
405,387 km251,896 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (27°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 28, 1995 is on Sunday, May 14, 1995 at 20:48 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, May 29, 1995 at 09:27 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, May 21, 199511:36
New Moon (after)Monday, May 29, 199509:27

The Moon around May 28

More about this date

Sunday, May 28, 1995 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 29, 1995 to the new moon of May 29, 1995, a cycle of 29.66 days.