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The Moon on Friday, August 22, 1919: Waning Crescent, 12% lit

Waning · 11.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 18°

Moon age

26.3days

Moon phase on August 22, 1919Waning Crescent

Friday 22 August 1919374,550 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 22, 1919, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 11.8% of its visible face lit, 26.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

11.8%Illumination at noon UTC
26.3 dMoon age
374,550 km232,734 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (18°)
31.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 22, 1919 is on Monday, August 11, 1919 at 17:39 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 25, 1919 at 15:37 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, August 18, 191915:56
New Moon (after)Monday, August 25, 191915:37

The Moon around August 22

More about this date

Friday, August 22, 1919 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 27, 1919 to the new moon of August 25, 1919, a cycle of 29.43 days.