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The Moon on Sunday, August 29, 1954: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 1.3% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 18°

Moon age

1.1days

Moon phase on August 29, 1954Waxing Crescent

Sunday 29 August 1954396,145 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 29, 1954, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 1.3% of its visible face lit, 1.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

1.3%Illumination at noon UTC
1.1 dMoon age
396,145 km246,153 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (18°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 29, 1954 is on Sunday, September 12, 1954 at 20:20 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 28, 1954 at 10:21 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, August 28, 195410:21
First Quarter (after)Sunday, September 5, 195412:29

The Moon around August 29

More about this date

Sunday, August 29, 1954 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 28, 1954 to the new moon of September 27, 1954, a cycle of 29.60 days.