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The Moon on Tuesday, August 21, 1923: Waxing Gibbous, 74% lit

Waxing · 74.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 26°

Moon age

9.0days

Moon phase on August 21, 1923Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 21 August 1923375,740 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 21, 1923, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 74.4% of its visible face lit, 9.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

74.4%Illumination at noon UTC
9.0 dMoon age
375,740 km233,474 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (27°)
31.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 21, 1923 is on Sunday, August 26, 1923 at 10:29 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 12, 1923 at 11:16 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, August 19, 192306:07
Full Moon (after)Sunday, August 26, 192310:29

The Moon around August 21

More about this date

Tuesday, August 21, 1923 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 12, 1923 to the new moon of September 10, 1923, a cycle of 29.40 days.