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The Moon on Tuesday, August 30, 2005: Waning Crescent, 16% lit

Waning · 15.9% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 20°

Moon age

25.4days

Moon phase on August 30, 2005Waning Crescent

Tuesday 30 August 2005405,048 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 30, 2005, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 15.9% of its visible face lit, 25.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

15.9%Illumination at noon UTC
25.4 dMoon age
405,048 km251,685 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (20°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 30, 2005 is on Friday, August 19, 2005 at 17:53 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, September 3, 2005 at 18:46 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, August 26, 200515:18
New Moon (after)Saturday, September 3, 200518:46

The Moon around August 30

More about this date

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 5, 2005 to the new moon of September 3, 2005, a cycle of 29.65 days.