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The Moon on Thursday, August 1, 1940: Waning Crescent, 7% lit

Waning · 7.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 08°

Moon age

27.0days

Moon phase on August 1, 1940Waning Crescent

Thursday 1 August 1940377,471 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, August 1, 1940, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 7.3% of its visible face lit, 27.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

7.3%Illumination at noon UTC
27.0 dMoon age
377,471 km234,550 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (8°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 1, 1940 is on Friday, July 19, 1940 at 09:55 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 3, 1940 at 20:09 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, July 27, 194011:30
New Moon (after)Saturday, August 3, 194020:09

The Moon around August 1

More about this date

Thursday, August 1, 1940 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 5, 1940 to the new moon of August 3, 1940, a cycle of 29.36 days.