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The Moon on Monday, August 22, 1921: Waning Gibbous, 87% lit

Waning · 86.9% lit · ♈︎ Aries 11°

Moon age

18.7days

Moon phase on August 22, 1921Waning Gibbous

Monday 22 August 1921398,242 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, August 22, 1921, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 86.9% of its visible face lit, 18.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

86.9%Illumination at noon UTC
18.7 dMoon age
398,242 km247,456 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (11°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 22, 1921 is on Thursday, August 18, 1921 at 15:28 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 2, 1921 at 03:33 UTC, 11 days later.

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

The Moon around August 22

More about this date

Monday, August 22, 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.