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The Moon on Wednesday, August 12, 2015: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 4.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 25°

Moon age

27.4days

Moon phase on August 12, 2015Waning Crescent

Wednesday 12 August 2015395,299 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 12, 2015, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.5% of its visible face lit, 27.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.5%Illumination at noon UTC
27.4 dMoon age
395,299 km245,627 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (25°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 12, 2015 is on Friday, July 31, 2015 at 10:43 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 14, 2015 at 14:54 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, August 7, 201502:03
New Moon (after)Friday, August 14, 201514:54

The Moon around August 12

More about this date

Wednesday, August 12, 2015 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 16, 2015 to the new moon of August 14, 2015, a cycle of 29.56 days.