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The Moon on Sunday, August 21, 1938: Waning Crescent, 22% lit

Waning · 21.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 02°

Moon age

25.3days

Moon phase on August 21, 1938Waning Crescent

Sunday 21 August 1938364,982 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 21, 1938, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 21.5% of its visible face lit, 25.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

21.5%Illumination at noon UTC
25.3 dMoon age
364,982 km226,789 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (3°)
32.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 21, 1938 is on Thursday, August 11, 1938 at 05:57 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, August 25, 1938 at 11:17 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, August 18, 193820:30
New Moon (after)Thursday, August 25, 193811:17

The Moon around August 21

More about this date

Sunday, August 21, 1938 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 27, 1938 to the new moon of August 25, 1938, a cycle of 29.31 days.