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The Moon on Sunday, August 18, 1912: Waxing Crescent, 38% lit

Waxing · 37.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 10°

Moon age

5.7days

Moon phase on August 18, 1912Waxing Crescent

Sunday 18 August 1912384,002 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 18, 1912, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 37.7% of its visible face lit, 5.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

37.7%Illumination at noon UTC
5.7 dMoon age
384,002 km238,608 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (11°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 18, 1912 is on Tuesday, August 27, 1912 at 19:59 UTC, 9 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 12, 1912 at 19:57 UTC, 6 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, August 12, 191219:57
First Quarter (after)Monday, August 19, 191216:56

The Moon around August 18

More about this date

Sunday, August 18, 1912 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 12, 1912 to the new moon of September 11, 1912, a cycle of 29.33 days.