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The Moon on Saturday, August 18, 1934: First Quarter, 54% lit

Waxing · 53.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 28°

First Quarter at

04:33UTC

Moon phase on August 18, 1934First Quarter

Saturday 18 August 1934377,692 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, August 18, 1934, the Moon was a First Quarter: 53.5% of its visible face lit, 8.1 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

53.5%Illumination at noon UTC
8.1 dMoon age
377,692 km234,687 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (29°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 18, 1934 is on Friday, August 24, 1934 at 19:37 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 10, 1934 at 08:46 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, August 10, 193408:46
First Quarter (this day)Saturday, August 18, 193404:33
Full Moon (after)Friday, August 24, 193419:37

The Moon around August 18

More about this date

Saturday, August 18, 1934 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 10, 1934 to the new moon of September 9, 1934, a cycle of 29.65 days.