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The Moon on Sunday, August 24, 2003: Waning Crescent, 12% lit

Waning · 11.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 20°

Moon age

26.2days

Moon phase on August 24, 2003Waning Crescent

Sunday 24 August 2003390,535 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 24, 2003, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 11.8% of its visible face lit, 26.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

11.8%Illumination at noon UTC
26.2 dMoon age
390,535 km242,667 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (21°)
30.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 24, 2003 is on Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 04:48 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, August 27, 2003 at 17:26 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, August 20, 200300:48
New Moon (after)Wednesday, August 27, 200317:26

The Moon around August 24

More about this date

Sunday, August 24, 2003 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 29, 2003 to the new moon of August 27, 2003, a cycle of 29.44 days.