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The Moon on Sunday, August 20, 1922: Waning Crescent, 8% lit

Waning · 8.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 24°

Moon age

27.0days

Moon phase on August 20, 1922Waning Crescent

Sunday 20 August 1922368,222 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 20, 1922, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 8.0% of its visible face lit, 27.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

8.0%Illumination at noon UTC
27.0 dMoon age
368,222 km228,803 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (24°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 20, 1922 is on Monday, August 7, 1922 at 16:19 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 22, 1922 at 20:34 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, August 15, 192220:46
New Moon (after)Tuesday, August 22, 192220:34

The Moon around August 20

More about this date

Sunday, August 20, 1922 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 24, 1922 to the new moon of August 22, 1922, a cycle of 29.32 days.