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The Moon on Saturday, August 20, 1921: Waning Gibbous, 97% lit

Waning · 96.9% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 17°

Moon age

16.7days

Moon phase on August 20, 1921Waning Gibbous

Saturday 20 August 1921403,406 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, August 20, 1921, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 96.9% of its visible face lit, 16.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

96.9%Illumination at noon UTC
16.7 dMoon age
403,406 km250,665 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (17°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 20, 1921 is on Thursday, August 18, 1921 at 15:28 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 2, 1921 at 03:33 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, August 18, 192115:28
Last Quarter (after)Friday, August 26, 192112:51

The Moon around August 20

More about this date

Saturday, August 20, 1921 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 3, 1921 to the new moon of September 2, 1921, a cycle of 29.30 days.