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The Moon on Tuesday, August 10, 2021: Waxing Crescent, 4% lit

Waxing · 4.4% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 11°

Moon age

1.9days

Moon phase on August 10, 2021Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 10 August 2021380,987 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 10, 2021, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 4.4% of its visible face lit, 1.9 days after the new moon and growing each night.

4.4%Illumination at noon UTC
1.9 dMoon age
380,987 km236,734 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (12°)
31.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 10, 2021 is on Sunday, August 22, 2021 at 12:02 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 8, 2021 at 13:50 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, August 8, 202113:50
First Quarter (after)Sunday, August 15, 202115:20

The Moon around August 10

More about this date

Tuesday, August 10, 2021 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 8, 2021 to the new moon of September 7, 2021, a cycle of 29.46 days.