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The Moon on Sunday, August 6, 1922: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 98.5% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 29°

Moon age

13.0days

Moon phase on August 6, 1922Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 6 August 1922397,158 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 6, 1922, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 98.5% of its visible face lit, 13.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

98.5%Illumination at noon UTC
13.0 dMoon age
397,158 km246,782 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (30°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 6, 1922 is on Monday, August 7, 1922 at 16:19 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, July 24, 1922 at 12:47 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, July 31, 192204:21
Full Moon (after)Monday, August 7, 192216:19

The Moon around August 6

More about this date

Sunday, August 6, 1922 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 24, 1922 to the new moon of August 22, 1922, a cycle of 29.32 days.