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The Moon on Sunday, August 12, 1928: Waning Crescent, 12% lit

Waning · 11.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 09°

Moon age

26.3days

Moon phase on August 12, 1928Waning Crescent

Sunday 12 August 1928370,139 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 12, 1928, 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
370,139 km229,994 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (9°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 12, 1928 is on Wednesday, August 1, 1928 at 15:31 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, August 15, 1928 at 13:49 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, August 8, 192817:24
New Moon (after)Wednesday, August 15, 192813:49

The Moon around August 12

More about this date

Sunday, August 12, 1928 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 17, 1928 to the new moon of August 15, 1928, a cycle of 29.38 days.