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The Moon on Sunday, August 8, 1999: Waning Crescent, 11% lit

Waning · 11.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 06°

Moon age

26.4days

Moon phase on August 8, 1999Waning Crescent

Sunday 8 August 1999366,834 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 8, 1999, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 11.5% of its visible face lit, 26.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

11.5%Illumination at noon UTC
26.4 dMoon age
366,834 km227,940 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (6°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 8, 1999 is on Wednesday, July 28, 1999 at 11:25 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, August 11, 1999 at 11:09 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, August 4, 199917:27
New Moon (after)Wednesday, August 11, 199911:09

The Moon around August 8

More about this date

Sunday, August 8, 1999 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 13, 1999 to the new moon of August 11, 1999, a cycle of 29.36 days.