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The Moon on Tuesday, August 5, 1902: Waxing Crescent, 4% lit

Waxing · 3.8% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 04°

Moon age

1.7days

Moon phase on August 5, 1902Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 5 August 1902372,609 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 5, 1902, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 3.8% of its visible face lit, 1.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

3.8%Illumination at noon UTC
1.7 dMoon age
372,609 km231,528 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (4°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 5, 1902 is on Tuesday, August 19, 1902 at 06:03 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 3, 1902 at 20:17 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, August 3, 190220:17
First Quarter (after)Monday, August 11, 190204:24

The Moon around August 5

More about this date

Tuesday, August 5, 1902 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 3, 1902 to the new moon of September 2, 1902, a cycle of 29.38 days.