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The Moon on Wednesday, August 30, 1978: Waning Crescent, 9% lit

Waning · 9.3% lit · ♌︎ Leo 01°

Moon age

26.5days

Moon phase on August 30, 1978Waning Crescent

Wednesday 30 August 1978405,183 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 30, 1978, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 9.3% of its visible face lit, 26.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

9.3%Illumination at noon UTC
26.5 dMoon age
405,183 km251,769 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (2°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 30, 1978 is on Friday, August 18, 1978 at 10:14 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, September 2, 1978 at 16:09 UTC, 3 days later.

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

The Moon around August 30

More about this date

Wednesday, August 30, 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.