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The Moon on Sunday, August 20, 1911: Waning Crescent, 18% lit

Waning · 18.1% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 06°

Moon age

25.7days

Moon phase on August 20, 1911Waning Crescent

Sunday 20 August 1911365,352 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 20, 1911, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 18.1% of its visible face lit, 25.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

18.1%Illumination at noon UTC
25.7 dMoon age
365,352 km227,019 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (6°)
32.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 20, 1911 is on Thursday, August 10, 1911 at 02:55 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, August 24, 1911 at 04:14 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, August 17, 191112:11
New Moon (after)Thursday, August 24, 191104:14

The Moon around August 20

More about this date

Sunday, August 20, 1911 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 25, 1911 to the new moon of August 24, 1911, a cycle of 29.33 days.