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The Moon on Wednesday, August 27, 1941: Waxing Crescent, 27% lit

Waxing · 26.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 06°

Moon age

4.7days

Moon phase on August 27, 1941Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 27 August 1941368,230 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 27, 1941, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 26.9% of its visible face lit, 4.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

26.9%Illumination at noon UTC
4.7 dMoon age
368,230 km228,808 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (6°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 27, 1941 is on Friday, September 5, 1941 at 17:36 UTC, 9 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 22, 1941 at 18:34 UTC, 5 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, August 22, 194118:34
First Quarter (after)Friday, August 29, 194114:04

The Moon around August 27

More about this date

Wednesday, August 27, 1941 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 22, 1941 to the new moon of September 21, 1941, a cycle of 29.42 days.