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The Moon on Sunday, August 21, 2044: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 3.5% lit · ♌︎ Leo 07°

Moon age

27.8days

Moon phase on August 21, 2044Waning Crescent

Sunday 21 August 2044362,899 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 21, 2044, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent: 3.5% of its visible face lit, 27.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.5%Illumination at noon UTC
27.8 dMoon age
362,899 km225,495 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (8°)
32.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 21, 2044 is on Monday, August 8, 2044 at 21:14 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 23, 2044 at 01:06 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, August 16, 204410:03
New Moon (after)Tuesday, August 23, 204401:06

The Moon around August 21

More about this date

Sunday, August 21, 2044 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 24, 2044 to the new moon of August 23, 2044, a cycle of 29.33 days.