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The Moon on Wednesday, August 31, 1921: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 4.3% lit · ♌︎ Leo 14°

Moon age

27.7days

Moon phase on August 31, 1921Waning Crescent

Wednesday 31 August 1921358,960 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 31, 1921, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.3% of its visible face lit, 27.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.3%Illumination at noon UTC
27.7 dMoon age
358,960 km223,047 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (14°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 31, 1921 is on Thursday, August 18, 1921 at 15:28 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 2, 1921 at 03:33 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, August 26, 192112:51
New Moon (after)Friday, September 2, 192103:33

The Moon around August 31

More about this date

Wednesday, August 31, 1921 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 3, 1921 to the new moon of September 2, 1921, a cycle of 29.30 days.