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The Moon on Sunday, August 23, 2020: Waxing Crescent, 25% lit

Waxing · 25.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 01°

Moon age

4.4days

Moon phase on August 23, 2020Waxing Crescent

Sunday 23 August 2020366,081 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 23, 2020, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 25.3% of its visible face lit, 4.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

25.3%Illumination at noon UTC
4.4 dMoon age
366,081 km227,472 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (1°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 23, 2020 is on Wednesday, September 2, 2020 at 05:22 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 02:42 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Wednesday, August 19, 202002:42
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, August 25, 202017:58

The Moon around August 23

More about this date

Sunday, August 23, 2020 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 19, 2020 to the new moon of September 17, 2020, a cycle of 29.35 days.