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The Moon on Tuesday, August 5, 2059: Waning Crescent, 8% lit

Waning · 7.7% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 11°

Moon age

26.8days

Moon phase on August 5, 2059Waning Crescent

Tuesday 5 August 2059394,792 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 5, 2059, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent: 7.7% of its visible face lit, 26.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

7.7%Illumination at noon UTC
26.8 dMoon age
394,792 km245,312 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (11°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 5, 2059 is on Friday, July 25, 2059 at 02:24 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 8, 2059 at 07:38 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, July 31, 205916:43
New Moon (after)Friday, August 8, 205907:38

The Moon around August 5

More about this date

Tuesday, August 5, 2059 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 9, 2059 to the new moon of August 8, 2059, a cycle of 29.57 days.