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The Moon on Tuesday, August 22, 1944: Waxing Crescent, 12% lit

Waxing · 11.8% lit · ♎︎ Libra 09°

Moon age

3.6days

Moon phase on August 22, 1944Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 22 August 1944405,680 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 22, 1944, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 11.8% of its visible face lit, 3.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

11.8%Illumination at noon UTC
3.6 dMoon age
405,680 km252,078 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (9°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 22, 1944 is on Saturday, September 2, 1944 at 20:21 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 18, 1944 at 20:25 UTC, 4 days earlier.

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

The Moon around August 22

More about this date

Tuesday, August 22, 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.