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The Moon on Saturday, August 19, 1944: Waxing Crescent, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.5% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 03°

Moon age

0.6days

Moon phase on August 19, 1944Waxing Crescent

Saturday 19 August 1944405,197 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, August 19, 1944, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.5% of its visible face lit, 0.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.5%Illumination at noon UTC
0.6 dMoon age
405,197 km251,777 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (3°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 19, 1944 is on Saturday, September 2, 1944 at 20:21 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 18, 1944 at 20:25 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, August 18, 194420:25
First Quarter (after)Saturday, August 26, 194423:39

The Moon around August 19

More about this date

Saturday, August 19, 1944 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 18, 1944 to the new moon of September 17, 1944, a cycle of 29.68 days.