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The Moon on Monday, August 27, 1906: First Quarter, 56% lit

Waxing · 55.5% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 09°

First Quarter at

00:42UTC

Moon phase on August 27, 1906First Quarter

Monday 27 August 1906369,744 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, August 27, 1906, the Moon was a First Quarter: 55.5% of its visible face lit, 7.4 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

55.5%Illumination at noon UTC
7.4 dMoon age
369,744 km229,748 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (10°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

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

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, August 20, 190601:27
First Quarter (this day)Monday, August 27, 190600:42
Full Moon (after)Sunday, September 2, 190623:36

The Moon around August 27

More about this date

Monday, August 27, 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.