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The Moon on Sunday, August 22, 1909: Waxing Crescent, 34% lit

Waxing · 34.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 10°

Moon age

6.5days

Moon phase on August 22, 1909Waxing Crescent

Sunday 22 August 1909402,244 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 22, 1909, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 34.3% of its visible face lit, 6.5 days after the new moon and growing each night.

34.3%Illumination at noon UTC
6.5 dMoon age
402,244 km249,942 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (10°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 22, 1909 is on Tuesday, August 31, 1909 at 05:08 UTC, 9 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 15, 1909 at 23:55 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, August 15, 190923:55
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, August 24, 190903:55

The Moon around August 22

More about this date

Sunday, August 22, 1909 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 15, 1909 to the new moon of September 14, 1909, a cycle of 29.63 days.