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The Moon on Thursday, August 8, 1940: Waxing Crescent, 28% lit

Waxing · 27.9% lit · ♎︎ Libra 19°

Moon age

4.7days

Moon phase on August 8, 1940Waxing Crescent

Thursday 8 August 1940366,822 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, August 8, 1940, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 27.9% of its visible face lit, 4.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

27.9%Illumination at noon UTC
4.7 dMoon age
366,822 km227,933 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (19°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 8, 1940 is on Saturday, August 17, 1940 at 23:03 UTC, 9 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 3, 1940 at 20:09 UTC, 5 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, August 3, 194020:09
First Quarter (after)Saturday, August 10, 194012:00

The Moon around August 8

More about this date

Thursday, August 8, 1940 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 3, 1940 to the new moon of September 2, 1940, a cycle of 29.34 days.