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The Moon on Sunday, August 15, 1982: Waning Crescent, 18% lit

Waning · 17.7% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 02°

Moon age

25.7days

Moon phase on August 15, 1982Waning Crescent

Sunday 15 August 1982364,251 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 15, 1982, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 17.7% of its visible face lit, 25.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

17.7%Illumination at noon UTC
25.7 dMoon age
364,251 km226,335 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (3°)
32.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 15, 1982 is on Wednesday, August 4, 1982 at 22:34 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, August 19, 1982 at 02:45 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, August 12, 198211:09
New Moon (after)Thursday, August 19, 198202:45

The Moon around August 15

More about this date

Sunday, August 15, 1982 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 20, 1982 to the new moon of August 19, 1982, a cycle of 29.33 days.