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The Moon on Tuesday, August 3, 1937: Waning Crescent, 12% lit

Waning · 12.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 00°

Moon age

26.3days

Moon phase on August 3, 1937Waning Crescent

Tuesday 3 August 1937366,522 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 3, 1937, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 12.0% of its visible face lit, 26.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

12.0%Illumination at noon UTC
26.3 dMoon age
366,522 km227,746 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (0°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 3, 1937 is on Friday, July 23, 1937 at 12:46 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 6, 1937 at 12:37 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, July 30, 193718:47
New Moon (after)Friday, August 6, 193712:37

The Moon around August 3

More about this date

Tuesday, August 3, 1937 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 8, 1937 to the new moon of August 6, 1937, a cycle of 29.35 days.