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The Moon on Tuesday, August 27, 1929: Last Quarter, 54% lit

Waning · 53.9% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 29°

Last Quarter at

20:02UTC

Moon phase on August 27, 1929Last Quarter

Tuesday 27 August 1929373,792 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 27, 1929, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 53.9% of its visible face lit, 22.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

53.9%Illumination at noon UTC
22.3 dMoon age
373,792 km232,264 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (29°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 27, 1929 is on Tuesday, August 20, 1929 at 09:42 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, September 3, 1929 at 11:47 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, August 20, 192909:42
Last Quarter (this day)Tuesday, August 27, 192920:02
New Moon (after)Tuesday, September 3, 192911:47

The Moon around August 27

More about this date

Tuesday, August 27, 1929 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 5, 1929 to the new moon of September 3, 1929, a cycle of 29.34 days.