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The Moon on Sunday, August 27, 1905: Waning Crescent, 12% lit

Waning · 11.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 23°

Moon age

26.3days

Moon phase on August 27, 1905Waning Crescent

Sunday 27 August 1905379,057 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 27, 1905, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 11.8% of its visible face lit, 26.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

11.8%Illumination at noon UTC
26.3 dMoon age
379,057 km235,535 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (23°)
31.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 27, 1905 is on Tuesday, August 15, 1905 at 03:31 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, August 30, 1905 at 13:13 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, August 23, 190506:10
New Moon (after)Wednesday, August 30, 190513:13

The Moon around August 27

More about this date

Sunday, August 27, 1905 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 1, 1905 to the new moon of August 30, 1905, a cycle of 29.38 days.