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The Moon on Thursday, August 12, 1937: Waxing Crescent, 35% lit

Waxing · 35.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 01°

Moon age

6.0days

Moon phase on August 12, 1937Waxing Crescent

Thursday 12 August 1937399,787 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, August 12, 1937, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 35.0% of its visible face lit, 6.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

35.0%Illumination at noon UTC
6.0 dMoon age
399,787 km248,416 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (2°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 12, 1937 is on Sunday, August 22, 1937 at 00:47 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 6, 1937 at 12:37 UTC, 6 days earlier.

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

The Moon around August 12

More about this date

Thursday, August 12, 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.