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The Moon on Friday, August 8, 1913: Waxing Crescent, 43% lit

Waxing · 42.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 06°

Moon age

6.0days

Moon phase on August 8, 1913Waxing Crescent

Friday 8 August 1913373,664 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 8, 1913, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 42.7% of its visible face lit, 6.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

42.7%Illumination at noon UTC
6.0 dMoon age
373,664 km232,184 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (7°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 8, 1913 is on Saturday, August 16, 1913 at 20:27 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 2, 1913 at 12:58 UTC, 6 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, August 2, 191312:58
First Quarter (after)Saturday, August 9, 191304:03

The Moon around August 8

More about this date

Friday, August 8, 1913 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 2, 1913 to the new moon of August 31, 1913, a cycle of 29.32 days.