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The Moon on Thursday, August 24, 1939: Waxing Gibbous, 75% lit

Waxing · 75.3% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 00°

Moon age

9.3days

Moon phase on August 24, 1939Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 24 August 1939398,161 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, August 24, 1939, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 75.3% of its visible face lit, 9.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

75.3%Illumination at noon UTC
9.3 dMoon age
398,161 km247,406 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (1°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 24, 1939 is on Tuesday, August 29, 1939 at 22:09 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 15, 1939 at 03:53 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, August 21, 193921:21
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, August 29, 193922:09

The Moon around August 24

More about this date

Thursday, August 24, 1939 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 15, 1939 to the new moon of September 13, 1939, a cycle of 29.31 days.