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The Moon on Sunday, August 4, 1929: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.8% lit · ♌︎ Leo 02°

Moon age

28.6days

Moon phase on August 4, 1929Waning Crescent

Sunday 4 August 1929360,066 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 4, 1929, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.8% of its visible face lit, 28.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.8%Illumination at noon UTC
28.6 dMoon age
360,066 km223,735 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (2°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 4, 1929 is on Sunday, July 21, 1929 at 19:21 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 5, 1929 at 03:40 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, July 29, 192912:56
New Moon (after)Monday, August 5, 192903:40

The Moon around August 4

More about this date

Sunday, August 4, 1929 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 6, 1929 to the new moon of August 5, 1929, a cycle of 29.29 days.