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The Moon on Tuesday, August 24, 1982: Waxing Crescent, 32% lit

Waxing · 31.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 09°

Moon age

5.4days

Moon phase on August 24, 1982Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 24 August 1982392,623 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 24, 1982, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 31.7% of its visible face lit, 5.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

31.7%Illumination at noon UTC
5.4 dMoon age
392,623 km243,964 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (9°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 24, 1982 is on Friday, September 3, 1982 at 12:28 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, August 19, 1982 at 02:45 UTC, 5 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, August 19, 198202:45
First Quarter (after)Thursday, August 26, 198209:50

The Moon around August 24

More about this date

Tuesday, August 24, 1982 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 19, 1982 to the new moon of September 17, 1982, a cycle of 29.39 days.