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The Moon on Friday, August 30, 2024: Waning Crescent, 12% lit

Waning · 12.1% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 27°

Moon age

26.0days

Moon phase on August 30, 2024Waning Crescent

Friday 30 August 2024394,440 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 30, 2024, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 12.1% of its visible face lit, 26.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

12.1%Illumination at noon UTC
26.0 dMoon age
394,440 km245,094 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (27°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 30, 2024 is on Monday, August 19, 2024 at 18:26 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, September 3, 2024 at 01:56 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, August 26, 202409:26
New Moon (after)Tuesday, September 3, 202401:56

The Moon around August 30

More about this date

Friday, August 30, 2024 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 4, 2024 to the new moon of September 3, 2024, a cycle of 29.61 days.