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The Moon on Wednesday, August 22, 1984: Waning Crescent, 24% lit

Waning · 23.7% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 01°

Moon age

25.0days

Moon phase on August 22, 1984Waning Crescent

Wednesday 22 August 1984379,081 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 22, 1984, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 23.7% of its visible face lit, 25.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

23.7%Illumination at noon UTC
25.0 dMoon age
379,081 km235,550 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (1°)
31.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 22, 1984 is on Saturday, August 11, 1984 at 15:43 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 26, 1984 at 19:26 UTC, 4 days later.

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

The Moon around August 22

More about this date

Wednesday, August 22, 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.