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The Moon on Tuesday, August 6, 1918: New Moon, 0% lit

Waning · 0.2% lit · ♌︎ Leo 09°

New Moon at

20:29UTC

Moon phase on August 6, 1918New Moon

Tuesday 6 August 1918393,607 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 6, 1918, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.2% of its visible face lit, 29.2 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.2%Illumination at noon UTC
29.2 dMoon age
393,607 km244,576 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (9°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 6, 1918 is on Tuesday, July 23, 1918 at 20:34 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 6, 1918 at 20:29 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, July 30, 191813:14
New Moon (this day)Tuesday, August 6, 191820:29
First Quarter (after)Wednesday, August 14, 191823:16

The Moon around August 6

More about this date

Tuesday, August 6, 1918 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 8, 1918 to the new moon of August 6, 1918, a cycle of 29.51 days.