Skip to content
The Moon on Sunday, August 11, 1991: Waxing Crescent, 3% lit

Waxing · 2.9% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 07°

Moon age

1.4days

Moon phase on August 11, 1991Waxing Crescent

Sunday 11 August 1991366,369 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 11, 1991, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 2.9% of its visible face lit, 1.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

2.9%Illumination at noon UTC
1.4 dMoon age
366,369 km227,651 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (8°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 11, 1991 is on Sunday, August 25, 1991 at 09:07 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 10, 1991 at 02:28 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, August 10, 199102:28
First Quarter (after)Saturday, August 17, 199105:01

The Moon around August 11

More about this date

Sunday, August 11, 1991 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 10, 1991 to the new moon of September 8, 1991, a cycle of 29.36 days.