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The Moon on Tuesday, August 30, 2016: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 3.8% lit · ♌︎ Leo 15°

Moon age

27.6days

Moon phase on August 30, 2016Waning Crescent

Tuesday 30 August 2016386,315 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 30, 2016, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.8% of its visible face lit, 27.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.8%Illumination at noon UTC
27.6 dMoon age
386,315 km240,045 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (15°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 30, 2016 is on Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 09:27 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 09:03 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, August 25, 201603:41
New Moon (after)Thursday, September 1, 201609:03

The Moon around August 30

More about this date

Tuesday, August 30, 2016 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 2, 2016 to the new moon of September 1, 2016, a cycle of 29.51 days.