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The Moon on Sunday, May 8, 1921: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 0.5% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 25°

Moon age

0.6days

Moon phase on May 8, 1921Waxing Crescent

Sunday 8 May 1921373,154 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 8, 1921, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.5% of its visible face lit, 0.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.5%Illumination at noon UTC
0.6 dMoon age
373,154 km231,867 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (25°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 8, 1921 is on Saturday, May 21, 1921 at 20:15 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, May 7, 1921 at 21:01 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, May 7, 192121:01
First Quarter (after)Saturday, May 14, 192115:24

The Moon around May 8

More about this date

Sunday, May 8, 1921 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 7, 1921 to the new moon of June 6, 1921, a cycle of 29.38 days.