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The Moon on Sunday, August 7, 1983: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 2.7% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 25°

Moon age

28.0days

Moon phase on August 7, 1983Waning Crescent

Sunday 7 August 1983358,830 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 7, 1983, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 2.7% of its visible face lit, 28.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

2.7%Illumination at noon UTC
28.0 dMoon age
358,830 km222,967 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (26°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 7, 1983 is on Sunday, July 24, 1983 at 23:27 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 8, 1983 at 19:18 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, August 2, 198300:52
New Moon (after)Monday, August 8, 198319:18

The Moon around August 7

More about this date

Sunday, August 7, 1983 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 10, 1983 to the new moon of August 8, 1983, a cycle of 29.29 days.