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The Moon on Sunday, August 21, 1904: Waxing Gibbous, 82% lit

Waxing · 81.8% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 07°

Moon age

10.0days

Moon phase on August 21, 1904Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 21 August 1904395,786 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 21, 1904, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 81.8% of its visible face lit, 10.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

81.8%Illumination at noon UTC
10.0 dMoon age
395,786 km245,930 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (8°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 21, 1904 is on Friday, August 26, 1904 at 01:02 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, August 11, 1904 at 12:58 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, August 18, 190404:27
Full Moon (after)Friday, August 26, 190401:02

The Moon around August 21

More about this date

Sunday, August 21, 1904 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 11, 1904 to the new moon of September 9, 1904, a cycle of 29.32 days.