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The Moon on Friday, August 18, 1933: Waning Crescent, 7% lit

Waning · 7.4% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 23°

Moon age

26.8days

Moon phase on August 18, 1933Waning Crescent

Friday 18 August 1933400,552 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 18, 1933, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 7.4% of its visible face lit, 26.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

7.4%Illumination at noon UTC
26.8 dMoon age
400,552 km248,891 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (24°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 18, 1933 is on Saturday, August 5, 1933 at 19:32 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 21, 1933 at 05:48 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, August 13, 193303:49
New Moon (after)Monday, August 21, 193305:48

The Moon around August 18

More about this date

Friday, August 18, 1933 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 22, 1933 to the new moon of August 21, 1933, a cycle of 29.57 days.