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The Moon on Sunday, August 20, 1933: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.6% lit · ♌︎ Leo 18°

Moon age

28.8days

Moon phase on August 20, 1933Waning Crescent

Sunday 20 August 1933394,199 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 20, 1933, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.6% of its visible face lit, 28.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.6%Illumination at noon UTC
28.8 dMoon age
394,199 km244,944 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (18°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 20, 1933 is on Saturday, August 5, 1933 at 19:32 UTC, 15 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 21, 1933 at 05:48 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around August 20

More about this date

Sunday, August 20, 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.