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The Moon on Friday, August 9, 1940: Waxing Crescent, 39% lit

Waxing · 38.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 03°

Moon age

5.7days

Moon phase on August 9, 1940Waxing Crescent

Friday 9 August 1940369,857 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 9, 1940, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 38.8% of its visible face lit, 5.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

38.8%Illumination at noon UTC
5.7 dMoon age
369,857 km229,818 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (4°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 9, 1940 is on Saturday, August 17, 1940 at 23:03 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 3, 1940 at 20:09 UTC, 6 days earlier.

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

The Moon around August 9

More about this date

Friday, August 9, 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.