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The Moon on Sunday, August 15, 1993: Waning Crescent, 7% lit

Waning · 7.4% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 21°

Moon age

27.0days

Moon phase on August 15, 1993Waning Crescent

Sunday 15 August 1993371,675 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 15, 1993, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 7.4% of its visible face lit, 27.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

7.4%Illumination at noon UTC
27.0 dMoon age
371,675 km230,948 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (21°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 15, 1993 is on Monday, August 2, 1993 at 12:10 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 17, 1993 at 19:28 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, August 10, 199315:20
New Moon (after)Tuesday, August 17, 199319:28

The Moon around August 15

More about this date

Sunday, August 15, 1993 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 19, 1993 to the new moon of August 17, 1993, a cycle of 29.34 days.