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The Moon on Wednesday, August 12, 1953: Waxing Crescent, 7% lit

Waxing · 7.3% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 20°

Moon age

2.8days

Moon phase on August 12, 1953Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 12 August 1953405,616 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 12, 1953, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 7.3% of its visible face lit, 2.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

7.3%Illumination at noon UTC
2.8 dMoon age
405,616 km252,038 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (21°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 12, 1953 is on Monday, August 24, 1953 at 20:21 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 9, 1953 at 16:10 UTC, 3 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, August 9, 195316:10
First Quarter (after)Monday, August 17, 195320:08

The Moon around August 12

More about this date

Wednesday, August 12, 1953 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 9, 1953 to the new moon of September 8, 1953, a cycle of 29.65 days.