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The Moon on Sunday, August 20, 1944: Waxing Crescent, 3% lit

Waxing · 2.6% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 15°

Moon age

1.6days

Moon phase on August 20, 1944Waxing Crescent

Sunday 20 August 1944406,120 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 20, 1944, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 2.6% of its visible face lit, 1.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

2.6%Illumination at noon UTC
1.6 dMoon age
406,120 km252,351 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (15°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 20, 1944 is on Saturday, September 2, 1944 at 20:21 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 18, 1944 at 20:25 UTC, 2 days earlier.

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

The Moon around August 20

More about this date

Sunday, August 20, 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.