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The Moon on Friday, August 27, 1943: Waning Crescent, 10% lit

Waning · 9.7% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 27°

Moon age

26.3days

Moon phase on August 27, 1943Waning Crescent

Friday 27 August 1943405,835 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 27, 1943, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 9.7% of its visible face lit, 26.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

9.7%Illumination at noon UTC
26.3 dMoon age
405,835 km252,174 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (27°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 27, 1943 is on Sunday, August 15, 1943 at 19:34 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 30, 1943 at 20:00 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, August 22, 194316:05
New Moon (after)Monday, August 30, 194320:00

The Moon around August 27

More about this date

Friday, August 27, 1943 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 1, 1943 to the new moon of August 30, 1943, a cycle of 29.66 days.