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The Moon on Tuesday, December 28, 2010: Last Quarter, 46% lit

Waning · 46.5% lit · ♎︎ Libra 10°

Last Quarter at

04:19UTC

Moon phase on December 28, 2010Last Quarter

Tuesday 28 December 2010371,331 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 28, 2010, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 46.5% of its visible face lit, 22.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

46.5%Illumination at noon UTC
22.8 dMoon age
371,331 km230,734 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (11°)
32.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 28, 2010 is on Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 08:14 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at 09:03 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, December 21, 201008:14
Last Quarter (this day)Tuesday, December 28, 201004:19
New Moon (after)Tuesday, January 4, 201109:03

The Moon around December 28

More about this date

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 5, 2010 to the new moon of January 4, 2011, a cycle of 29.64 days.