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The Moon on Saturday, August 25, 1962: Waning Crescent, 20% lit

Waning · 19.7% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 09°

Moon age

25.0days

Moon phase on August 25, 1962Waning Crescent

Saturday 25 August 1962389,910 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, August 25, 1962, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 19.7% of its visible face lit, 25.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

19.7%Illumination at noon UTC
25.0 dMoon age
389,910 km242,279 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (9°)
30.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 25, 1962 is on Wednesday, August 15, 1962 at 20:09 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, August 30, 1962 at 03:09 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, August 22, 196210:26
New Moon (after)Thursday, August 30, 196203:09

The Moon around August 25

More about this date

Saturday, August 25, 1962 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 31, 1962 to the new moon of August 30, 1962, a cycle of 29.61 days.