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The Moon on Sunday, August 21, 1966: Waxing Crescent, 33% lit

Waxing · 32.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 07°

Moon age

5.0days

Moon phase on August 21, 1966Waxing Crescent

Sunday 21 August 1966371,814 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 21, 1966, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 32.5% of its visible face lit, 5.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

32.5%Illumination at noon UTC
5.0 dMoon age
371,814 km231,035 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (7°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 21, 1966 is on Wednesday, August 31, 1966 at 00:14 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 16, 1966 at 11:48 UTC, 5 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, August 16, 196611:48
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, August 23, 196603:02

The Moon around August 21

More about this date

Sunday, August 21, 1966 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 16, 1966 to the new moon of September 14, 1966, a cycle of 29.31 days.