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The Moon on Friday, August 31, 1900: Waxing Crescent, 32% lit

Waxing · 32.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 16°

Moon age

6.3days

Moon phase on August 31, 1900Waxing Crescent

Friday 31 August 1900400,122 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 31, 1900, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 32.4% of its visible face lit, 6.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

32.4%Illumination at noon UTC
6.3 dMoon age
400,122 km248,624 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (17°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 31, 1900 is on Sunday, September 9, 1900 at 05:06 UTC, 9 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 25, 1900 at 03:53 UTC, 6 days earlier.

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

The Moon around August 31

More about this date

Friday, August 31, 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.