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The Moon on Sunday, December 28, 2008: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 0.9% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 17°

Moon age

1.0days

Moon phase on December 28, 2008Waxing Crescent

Sunday 28 December 2008405,609 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 28, 2008, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.9% of its visible face lit, 1.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.9%Illumination at noon UTC
1.0 dMoon age
405,609 km252,034 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (18°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 28, 2008 is on Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 03:27 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 12:23 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, December 27, 200812:23
First Quarter (after)Sunday, January 4, 200911:56

The Moon around December 28

More about this date

Sunday, December 28, 2008 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 27, 2008 to the new moon of January 26, 2009, a cycle of 29.81 days.