Skip to content
The Moon on Thursday, August 6, 1953: Waning Crescent, 10% lit

Waning · 9.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 07°

Moon age

26.4days

Moon phase on August 6, 1953Waning Crescent

Thursday 6 August 1953391,160 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, August 6, 1953, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 9.8% of its visible face lit, 26.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

9.8%Illumination at noon UTC
26.4 dMoon age
391,160 km243,055 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (7°)
30.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 6, 1953 is on Sunday, July 26, 1953 at 12:21 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 9, 1953 at 16:10 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, August 2, 195303:16
New Moon (after)Sunday, August 9, 195316:10

The Moon around August 6

More about this date

Thursday, August 6, 1953 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 11, 1953 to the new moon of August 9, 1953, a cycle of 29.57 days.