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The Moon on Monday, August 26, 1963: Waxing Crescent, 43% lit

Waxing · 42.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 23°

Moon age

7.2days

Moon phase on August 26, 1963Waxing Crescent

Monday 26 August 1963404,164 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, August 26, 1963, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 42.7% of its visible face lit, 7.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

42.7%Illumination at noon UTC
7.2 dMoon age
404,164 km251,136 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (24°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 26, 1963 is on Tuesday, September 3, 1963 at 19:34 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 19, 1963 at 07:35 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, August 19, 196307:35
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, August 27, 196306:54

The Moon around August 26

More about this date

Monday, August 26, 1963 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 19, 1963 to the new moon of September 17, 1963, a cycle of 29.55 days.