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The Moon on Sunday, August 22, 1976: Waning Crescent, 11% lit

Waning · 10.9% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 21°

Moon age

26.4days

Moon phase on August 22, 1976Waning Crescent

Sunday 22 August 1976383,034 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 22, 1976, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 10.9% of its visible face lit, 26.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

10.9%Illumination at noon UTC
26.4 dMoon age
383,034 km238,006 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (21°)
31.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 22, 1976 is on Monday, August 9, 1976 at 23:44 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, August 25, 1976 at 11:01 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, August 18, 197600:13
New Moon (after)Wednesday, August 25, 197611:01

The Moon around August 22

More about this date

Sunday, August 22, 1976 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 27, 1976 to the new moon of August 25, 1976, a cycle of 29.39 days.