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The Moon on Sunday, August 15, 2004: Waning Crescent, 0% lit

Waning · 0.5% lit · ♌︎ Leo 16°

Moon age

29.0days

Moon phase on August 15, 2004Waning Crescent

Sunday 15 August 2004398,211 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 15, 2004, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.5% of its visible face lit, 29.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.5%Illumination at noon UTC
29.0 dMoon age
398,211 km247,437 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (17°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 15, 2004 is on Monday, August 30, 2004 at 02:22 UTC, 15 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 16, 2004 at 01:24 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, August 7, 200422:01
New Moon (after)Monday, August 16, 200401:24

The Moon around August 15

More about this date

Sunday, August 15, 2004 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 17, 2004 to the new moon of August 16, 2004, a cycle of 29.58 days.