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The Moon on Sunday, August 26, 1900: Waxing Crescent, 2% lit

Waxing · 1.8% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 17°

Moon age

1.3days

Moon phase on August 26, 1900Waxing Crescent

Sunday 26 August 1900405,442 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 26, 1900, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 1.8% of its visible face lit, 1.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

1.8%Illumination at noon UTC
1.3 dMoon age
405,442 km251,930 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (18°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 26, 1900 is on Sunday, September 9, 1900 at 05:06 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 25, 1900 at 03:53 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, August 25, 190003:53
First Quarter (after)Sunday, September 2, 190007:56

The Moon around August 26

More about this date

Sunday, August 26, 1900 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 25, 1900 to the new moon of September 23, 1900, a cycle of 29.67 days.