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The Moon on Thursday, August 18, 2050: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 1.1% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 06°

Moon age

1.0days

Moon phase on August 18, 2050Waxing Crescent

Thursday 18 August 2050406,247 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, August 18, 2050, the Moon will be a Waxing Crescent: 1.1% of its visible face lit, 1.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

1.1%Illumination at noon UTC
1.0 dMoon age
406,247 km252,430 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (7°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 18, 2050 is on Thursday, September 1, 2050 at 09:31 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, August 17, 2050 at 11:47 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Wednesday, August 17, 205011:47
First Quarter (after)Thursday, August 25, 205014:56

The Moon around August 18

More about this date

Thursday, August 18, 2050 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 17, 2050 to the new moon of September 16, 2050, a cycle of 29.67 days.