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The Moon on Sunday, August 10, 1997: Waxing Crescent, 40% lit

Waxing · 40.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 06°

Moon age

7.2days

Moon phase on August 10, 1997Waxing Crescent

Sunday 10 August 1997398,078 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 10, 1997, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 40.0% of its visible face lit, 7.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

40.0%Illumination at noon UTC
7.2 dMoon age
398,078 km247,354 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (6°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 10, 1997 is on Monday, August 18, 1997 at 10:56 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 3, 1997 at 08:14 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, August 3, 199708:14
First Quarter (after)Monday, August 11, 199712:43

The Moon around August 10

More about this date

Sunday, August 10, 1997 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 3, 1997 to the new moon of September 1, 1997, a cycle of 29.65 days.