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The Moon on Monday, August 21, 1911: Waning Crescent, 10% lit

Waning · 10.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 20°

Moon age

26.7days

Moon phase on August 21, 1911Waning Crescent

Monday 21 August 1911364,834 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, August 21, 1911, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 10.0% of its visible face lit, 26.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

10.0%Illumination at noon UTC
26.7 dMoon age
364,834 km226,697 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (21°)
32.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 21, 1911 is on Thursday, August 10, 1911 at 02:55 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, August 24, 1911 at 04:14 UTC, 3 days later.

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

The Moon around August 21

More about this date

Monday, August 21, 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.