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The Moon on Wednesday, August 26, 1998: Waxing Crescent, 18% lit

Waxing · 17.6% lit · ♎︎ Libra 22°

Moon age

4.4days

Moon phase on August 26, 1998Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 26 August 1998404,814 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 26, 1998, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 17.6% of its visible face lit, 4.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

17.6%Illumination at noon UTC
4.4 dMoon age
404,814 km251,540 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (22°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 26, 1998 is on Sunday, September 6, 1998 at 11:21 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 22, 1998 at 02:03 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, August 22, 199802:03
First Quarter (after)Sunday, August 30, 199805:07

The Moon around August 26

More about this date

Wednesday, August 26, 1998 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 22, 1998 to the new moon of September 20, 1998, a cycle of 29.62 days.