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The Moon on Tuesday, August 29, 1978: Waning Crescent, 15% lit

Waning · 15.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 19°

Moon age

25.5days

Moon phase on August 29, 1978Waning Crescent

Tuesday 29 August 1978405,610 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 29, 1978, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 15.5% of its visible face lit, 25.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

15.5%Illumination at noon UTC
25.5 dMoon age
405,610 km252,034 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (20°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 29, 1978 is on Friday, August 18, 1978 at 10:14 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, September 2, 1978 at 16:09 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, August 25, 197812:18
New Moon (after)Saturday, September 2, 197816:09

The Moon around August 29

More about this date

Tuesday, August 29, 1978 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 4, 1978 to the new moon of September 2, 1978, a cycle of 29.63 days.