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The Moon on Sunday, August 21, 1921: Waning Gibbous, 93% lit

Waning · 92.7% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 29°

Moon age

17.7days

Moon phase on August 21, 1921Waning Gibbous

Sunday 21 August 1921401,152 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 21, 1921, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 92.7% of its visible face lit, 17.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

92.7%Illumination at noon UTC
17.7 dMoon age
401,152 km249,264 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (29°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 21, 1921 is on Thursday, August 18, 1921 at 15:28 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 2, 1921 at 03:33 UTC, 12 days later.

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

The Moon around August 21

More about this date

Sunday, August 21, 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.