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The Moon on Friday, August 3, 1900: First Quarter, 48% lit

Waxing · 48.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 08°

First Quarter at

16:46UTC

Moon phase on August 3, 1900First Quarter

Friday 3 August 1900399,556 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 3, 1900, the Moon was a First Quarter: 48.2% of its visible face lit, 7.9 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

48.2%Illumination at noon UTC
7.9 dMoon age
399,556 km248,273 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (8°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 3, 1900 is on Friday, August 10, 1900 at 21:30 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, July 26, 1900 at 13:43 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, July 26, 190013:43
First Quarter (this day)Friday, August 3, 190016:46
Full Moon (after)Friday, August 10, 190021:30

The Moon around August 3

More about this date

Friday, August 3, 1900 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 26, 1900 to the new moon of August 25, 1900, a cycle of 29.59 days.