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The Moon on Tuesday, August 21, 1984: Waning Crescent, 33% lit

Waning · 33.3% lit · ♊︎ Gemini 18°

Moon age

24.0days

Moon phase on August 21, 1984Waning Crescent

Tuesday 21 August 1984385,244 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 21, 1984, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 33.3% of its visible face lit, 24.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

33.3%Illumination at noon UTC
24.0 dMoon age
385,244 km239,379 mi from Earth
♊︎ GeminiMoon sign (18°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 21, 1984 is on Saturday, August 11, 1984 at 15:43 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 26, 1984 at 19:26 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, August 19, 198419:41
New Moon (after)Sunday, August 26, 198419:26

The Moon around August 21

More about this date

Tuesday, August 21, 1984 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 28, 1984 to the new moon of August 26, 1984, a cycle of 29.32 days.