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The Moon on Wednesday, August 22, 1900: Waning Crescent, 7% lit

Waning · 6.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 28°

Moon age

26.9days

Moon phase on August 22, 1900Waning Crescent

Wednesday 22 August 1900396,564 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 22, 1900, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 6.8% of its visible face lit, 26.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

6.8%Illumination at noon UTC
26.9 dMoon age
396,564 km246,413 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (29°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 22, 1900 is on Friday, August 10, 1900 at 21:30 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 25, 1900 at 03:53 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, August 17, 190011:46
New Moon (after)Saturday, August 25, 190003:53

The Moon around August 22

More about this date

Wednesday, August 22, 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.