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The Moon on Tuesday, August 23, 1955: Waxing Crescent, 33% lit

Waxing · 32.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 08°

Moon age

5.7days

Moon phase on August 23, 1955Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 23 August 1955398,091 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 23, 1955, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 32.5% of its visible face lit, 5.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

32.5%Illumination at noon UTC
5.7 dMoon age
398,091 km247,362 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (9°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 23, 1955 is on Friday, September 2, 1955 at 07:59 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, August 17, 1955 at 19:58 UTC, 6 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Wednesday, August 17, 195519:58
First Quarter (after)Thursday, August 25, 195508:52

The Moon around August 23

More about this date

Tuesday, August 23, 1955 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 17, 1955 to the new moon of September 16, 1955, a cycle of 29.43 days.