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The Moon on Tuesday, August 16, 1904: Waxing Crescent, 32% lit

Waxing · 31.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 01°

Moon age

5.0days

Moon phase on August 16, 1904Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 16 August 1904371,319 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 16, 1904, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 31.8% of its visible face lit, 5.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

31.8%Illumination at noon UTC
5.0 dMoon age
371,319 km230,727 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (2°)
32.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 16, 1904 is on Friday, August 26, 1904 at 01:02 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, August 11, 1904 at 12:58 UTC, 5 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, August 11, 190412:58
First Quarter (after)Thursday, August 18, 190404:27

The Moon around August 16

More about this date

Tuesday, August 16, 1904 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 11, 1904 to the new moon of September 9, 1904, a cycle of 29.32 days.