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The Moon on Sunday, August 8, 1937: Waxing Crescent, 5% lit

Waxing · 5.0% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 10°

Moon age

2.0days

Moon phase on August 8, 1937Waxing Crescent

Sunday 8 August 1937381,540 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 8, 1937, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 5.0% of its visible face lit, 2.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

5.0%Illumination at noon UTC
2.0 dMoon age
381,540 km237,078 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (11°)
31.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 8, 1937 is on Sunday, August 22, 1937 at 00:47 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 6, 1937 at 12:37 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, August 6, 193712:37
First Quarter (after)Saturday, August 14, 193702:28

The Moon around August 8

More about this date

Sunday, August 8, 1937 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 6, 1937 to the new moon of September 4, 1937, a cycle of 29.43 days.