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The Moon on Wednesday, August 6, 2059: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 3.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 23°

Moon age

27.8days

Moon phase on August 6, 2059Waning Crescent

Wednesday 6 August 2059397,950 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 6, 2059, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent: 3.3% of its visible face lit, 27.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.3%Illumination at noon UTC
27.8 dMoon age
397,950 km247,275 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (24°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 6, 2059 is on Friday, July 25, 2059 at 02:24 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 8, 2059 at 07:38 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around August 6

More about this date

Wednesday, August 6, 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.