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The Moon on Friday, August 19, 1960: Waning Crescent, 8% lit

Waning · 7.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 24°

Moon age

26.7days

Moon phase on August 19, 1960Waning Crescent

Friday 19 August 1960404,471 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 19, 1960, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 7.8% of its visible face lit, 26.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

7.8%Illumination at noon UTC
26.7 dMoon age
404,471 km251,327 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (24°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 19, 1960 is on Sunday, August 7, 1960 at 02:41 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 22, 1960 at 09:15 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, August 14, 196005:37
New Moon (after)Monday, August 22, 196009:15

The Moon around August 19

More about this date

Friday, August 19, 1960 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 23, 1960 to the new moon of August 22, 1960, a cycle of 29.61 days.