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The Moon on Thursday, August 27, 1936: Waxing Gibbous, 72% lit

Waxing · 71.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 29°

Moon age

10.4days

Moon phase on August 27, 1936Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 27 August 1936389,849 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, August 27, 1936, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 71.8% of its visible face lit, 10.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

71.8%Illumination at noon UTC
10.4 dMoon age
389,849 km242,241 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (30°)
30.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 27, 1936 is on Tuesday, September 1, 1936 at 12:37 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 17, 1936 at 03:21 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Tuesday, August 25, 193605:49
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, September 1, 193612:37

The Moon around August 27

More about this date

Thursday, August 27, 1936 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 17, 1936 to the new moon of September 15, 1936, a cycle of 29.60 days.