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The Moon on Sunday, August 9, 1964: Waxing Crescent, 4% lit

Waxing · 4.0% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 09°

Moon age

1.7days

Moon phase on August 9, 1964Waxing Crescent

Sunday 9 August 1964373,547 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 9, 1964, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 4.0% of its visible face lit, 1.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

4.0%Illumination at noon UTC
1.7 dMoon age
373,547 km232,111 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (10°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 9, 1964 is on Sunday, August 23, 1964 at 05:25 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 7, 1964 at 19:17 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, August 7, 196419:17
First Quarter (after)Saturday, August 15, 196403:19

The Moon around August 9

More about this date

Sunday, August 9, 1964 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 7, 1964 to the new moon of September 6, 1964, a cycle of 29.39 days.