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The Moon on Sunday, August 4, 1946: First Quarter, 47% lit

Waxing · 46.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 07°

First Quarter at

20:56UTC

Moon phase on August 4, 1946First Quarter

Sunday 4 August 1946400,594 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 4, 1946, the Moon was a First Quarter: 46.5% of its visible face lit, 7.0 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

46.5%Illumination at noon UTC
7.0 dMoon age
400,594 km248,918 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (7°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 4, 1946 is on Monday, August 12, 1946 at 22:26 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, July 28, 1946 at 11:54 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, July 28, 194611:54
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, August 4, 194620:56
Full Moon (after)Monday, August 12, 194622:26

The Moon around August 4

More about this date

Sunday, August 4, 1946 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 28, 1946 to the new moon of August 26, 1946, a cycle of 29.38 days.