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The Moon on Friday, August 23, 1946: Waning Crescent, 14% lit

Waning · 14.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 15°

Moon age

26.0days

Moon phase on August 23, 1946Waning Crescent

Friday 23 August 1946368,967 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 23, 1946, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 14.3% of its visible face lit, 26.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

14.3%Illumination at noon UTC
26.0 dMoon age
368,967 km229,266 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (15°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 23, 1946 is on Monday, August 12, 1946 at 22:26 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 26, 1946 at 21:07 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, August 20, 194601:17
New Moon (after)Monday, August 26, 194621:07

The Moon around August 23

More about this date

Friday, August 23, 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.