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The Moon on Thursday, August 31, 2073: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 3.5% lit · ♌︎ Leo 17°

Moon age

27.8days

Moon phase on August 31, 2073Waning Crescent

Thursday 31 August 2073368,515 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, August 31, 2073, 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
368,515 km228,984 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (17°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 31, 2073 is on Thursday, August 17, 2073 at 17:45 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, September 2, 2073 at 01:52 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, August 25, 207321:05
New Moon (after)Saturday, September 2, 207301:52

The Moon around August 31

More about this date

Thursday, August 31, 2073 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 3, 2073 to the new moon of September 2, 2073, a cycle of 29.37 days.