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The Moon on Tuesday, August 7, 1956: Waxing Crescent, 2% lit

Waxing · 1.8% lit · ♌︎ Leo 29°

Moon age

1.0days

Moon phase on August 7, 1956Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 7 August 1956360,307 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 7, 1956, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 1.8% of its visible face lit, 1.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

1.8%Illumination at noon UTC
1.0 dMoon age
360,307 km223,884 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (29°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 7, 1956 is on Tuesday, August 21, 1956 at 12:38 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 6, 1956 at 11:25 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, August 6, 195611:25
First Quarter (after)Monday, August 13, 195608:45

The Moon around August 7

More about this date

Tuesday, August 7, 1956 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 6, 1956 to the new moon of September 4, 1956, a cycle of 29.31 days.