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The Moon on Tuesday, August 31, 1937: Waning Crescent, 23% lit

Waning · 23.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 10°

Moon age

25.0days

Moon phase on August 31, 1937Waning Crescent

Tuesday 31 August 1937371,342 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 31, 1937, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 23.0% of its visible face lit, 25.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

23.0%Illumination at noon UTC
25.0 dMoon age
371,342 km230,741 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (11°)
32.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 31, 1937 is on Sunday, August 22, 1937 at 00:47 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, September 4, 1937 at 22:54 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, August 28, 193723:55
New Moon (after)Saturday, September 4, 193722:54

The Moon around August 31

More about this date

Tuesday, August 31, 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.