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The Moon on Saturday, August 21, 1920: First Quarter, 51% lit

Waxing · 50.6% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 28°

First Quarter at

10:52UTC

Moon phase on August 21, 1920First Quarter

Saturday 21 August 1920400,458 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, August 21, 1920, the Moon was a First Quarter: 50.6% of its visible face lit, 7.3 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

50.6%Illumination at noon UTC
7.3 dMoon age
400,458 km248,833 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (29°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 21, 1920 is on Sunday, August 29, 1920 at 13:03 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 14, 1920 at 03:44 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, August 14, 192003:44
First Quarter (this day)Saturday, August 21, 192010:52
Full Moon (after)Sunday, August 29, 192013:03

The Moon around August 21

More about this date

Saturday, August 21, 1920 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 14, 1920 to the new moon of September 12, 1920, a cycle of 29.38 days.