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The Moon on Sunday, August 15, 1999: Waxing Crescent, 18% lit

Waxing · 17.9% lit · ♎︎ Libra 12°

Moon age

4.0days

Moon phase on August 15, 1999Waxing Crescent

Sunday 15 August 1999392,413 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 15, 1999, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 17.9% of its visible face lit, 4.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

17.9%Illumination at noon UTC
4.0 dMoon age
392,413 km243,834 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (12°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 15, 1999 is on Thursday, August 26, 1999 at 23:48 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, August 11, 1999 at 11:09 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Wednesday, August 11, 199911:09
First Quarter (after)Thursday, August 19, 199901:47

The Moon around August 15

More about this date

Sunday, August 15, 1999 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 11, 1999 to the new moon of September 9, 1999, a cycle of 29.45 days.