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The Moon on Wednesday, August 13, 2042: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 5.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 24°

Moon age

27.3days

Moon phase on August 13, 2042Waning Crescent

Wednesday 13 August 2042388,197 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 13, 2042, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent: 5.5% of its visible face lit, 27.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

5.5%Illumination at noon UTC
27.3 dMoon age
388,197 km241,214 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (24°)
30.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 13, 2042 is on Friday, August 1, 2042 at 17:33 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 15, 2042 at 18:01 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, August 8, 204210:35
New Moon (after)Friday, August 15, 204218:01

The Moon around August 13

More about this date

Wednesday, August 13, 2042 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 17, 2042 to the new moon of August 15, 2042, a cycle of 29.51 days.