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The Moon on Sunday, August 27, 1916: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 1.5% lit · ♌︎ Leo 20°

Moon age

28.4days

Moon phase on August 27, 1916Waning Crescent

Sunday 27 August 1916402,310 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 27, 1916, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.5% of its visible face lit, 28.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.5%Illumination at noon UTC
28.4 dMoon age
402,310 km249,984 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (20°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 27, 1916 is on Sunday, August 13, 1916 at 12:00 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 28, 1916 at 17:24 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, August 20, 191612:53
New Moon (after)Monday, August 28, 191617:24

The Moon around August 27

More about this date

Sunday, August 27, 1916 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 30, 1916 to the new moon of August 28, 1916, a cycle of 29.63 days.