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The Moon on Saturday, August 29, 1959: Waning Crescent, 22% lit

Waning · 21.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 10°

Moon age

24.9days

Moon phase on August 29, 1959Waning Crescent

Saturday 29 August 1959397,817 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, August 29, 1959, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 21.5% of its visible face lit, 24.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

21.5%Illumination at noon UTC
24.9 dMoon age
397,817 km247,192 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (10°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 29, 1959 is on Tuesday, August 18, 1959 at 12:51 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 3, 1959 at 01:56 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, August 26, 195908:03
New Moon (after)Thursday, September 3, 195901:56

The Moon around August 29

More about this date

Saturday, August 29, 1959 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 4, 1959 to the new moon of September 3, 1959, a cycle of 29.47 days.