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The Moon on Friday, August 5, 1994: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 4.1% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 19°

Moon age

27.6days

Moon phase on August 5, 1994Waning Crescent

Friday 5 August 1994388,421 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 5, 1994, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.1% of its visible face lit, 27.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.1%Illumination at noon UTC
27.6 dMoon age
388,421 km241,354 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (20°)
30.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 5, 1994 is on Friday, July 22, 1994 at 20:16 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 7, 1994 at 08:45 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, July 30, 199412:40
New Moon (after)Sunday, August 7, 199408:45

The Moon around August 5

More about this date

Friday, August 5, 1994 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 8, 1994 to the new moon of August 7, 1994, a cycle of 29.46 days.