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The Moon on Tuesday, August 27, 1940: Waning Crescent, 37% lit

Waning · 36.6% lit · ♊︎ Gemini 19°

Moon age

23.7days

Moon phase on August 27, 1940Waning Crescent

Tuesday 27 August 1940388,731 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 27, 1940, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 36.6% of its visible face lit, 23.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

36.6%Illumination at noon UTC
23.7 dMoon age
388,731 km241,546 mi from Earth
♊︎ GeminiMoon sign (20°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 27, 1940 is on Saturday, August 17, 1940 at 23:03 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, September 2, 1940 at 04:15 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, August 26, 194003:33
New Moon (after)Monday, September 2, 194004:15

The Moon around August 27

More about this date

Tuesday, August 27, 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.