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The Moon on Sunday, August 26, 1906: Waxing Crescent, 44% lit

Waxing · 44.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 25°

Moon age

6.4days

Moon phase on August 26, 1906Waxing Crescent

Sunday 26 August 1906369,948 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 26, 1906, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 44.0% of its visible face lit, 6.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

44.0%Illumination at noon UTC
6.4 dMoon age
369,948 km229,875 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (25°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 26, 1906 is on Sunday, September 2, 1906 at 23:36 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 20, 1906 at 01:27 UTC, 6 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, August 20, 190601:27
First Quarter (after)Monday, August 27, 190600:42

The Moon around August 26

More about this date

Sunday, August 26, 1906 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 20, 1906 to the new moon of September 18, 1906, a cycle of 29.46 days.