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The Moon on Thursday, August 29, 1957: Waxing Crescent, 22% lit

Waxing · 22.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 01°

Moon age

4.0days

Moon phase on August 29, 1957Waxing Crescent

Thursday 29 August 1957369,115 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, August 29, 1957, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 22.2% of its visible face lit, 4.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

22.2%Illumination at noon UTC
4.0 dMoon age
369,115 km229,357 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (2°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 29, 1957 is on Monday, September 9, 1957 at 04:55 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 25, 1957 at 11:33 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, August 25, 195711:33
First Quarter (after)Sunday, September 1, 195704:35

The Moon around August 29

More about this date

Thursday, August 29, 1957 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 25, 1957 to the new moon of September 23, 1957, a cycle of 29.32 days.