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The Moon on Monday, August 5, 1929: New Moon, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.4% lit · ♌︎ Leo 17°

New Moon at

03:40UTC

Moon phase on August 5, 1929New Moon

Monday 5 August 1929362,005 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, August 5, 1929, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.4% of its visible face lit, 29.6 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.4%Illumination at noon UTC
29.6 dMoon age
362,005 km224,939 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (17°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 5, 1929 is on Sunday, July 21, 1929 at 19:21 UTC, 15 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 5, 1929 at 03:40 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, July 29, 192912:56
New Moon (this day)Monday, August 5, 192903:40
First Quarter (after)Monday, August 12, 192906:01

The Moon around August 5

More about this date

Monday, August 5, 1929 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 5, 1929 to the new moon of September 3, 1929, a cycle of 29.34 days.