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The Moon on Wednesday, August 20, 1924: Waning Gibbous, 68% lit

Waning · 67.9% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 06°

Moon age

19.7days

Moon phase on August 20, 1924Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 20 August 1924397,887 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 20, 1924, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 67.9% of its visible face lit, 19.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

67.9%Illumination at noon UTC
19.7 dMoon age
397,887 km247,236 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (6°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 20, 1924 is on Thursday, August 14, 1924 at 20:19 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 30, 1924 at 08:37 UTC, 10 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, August 14, 192420:19
Last Quarter (after)Friday, August 22, 192409:10

The Moon around August 20

More about this date

Wednesday, August 20, 1924 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 31, 1924 to the new moon of August 30, 1924, a cycle of 29.54 days.