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The Moon on Wednesday, August 24, 2011: Waning Crescent, 25% lit

Waning · 25.2% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 00°

Moon age

24.7days

Moon phase on August 24, 2011Waning Crescent

Wednesday 24 August 2011386,162 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 24, 2011, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 25.2% of its visible face lit, 24.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

25.2%Illumination at noon UTC
24.7 dMoon age
386,162 km239,950 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (1°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 24, 2011 is on Saturday, August 13, 2011 at 18:58 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 29, 2011 at 03:04 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, August 21, 201121:55
New Moon (after)Monday, August 29, 201103:04

The Moon around August 24

More about this date

Wednesday, August 24, 2011 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 30, 2011 to the new moon of August 29, 2011, a cycle of 29.35 days.