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The Moon on Friday, August 23, 1940: Waning Gibbous, 75% lit

Waning · 74.6% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 00°

Moon age

19.7days

Moon phase on August 23, 1940Waning Gibbous

Friday 23 August 1940404,184 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 23, 1940, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 74.6% of its visible face lit, 19.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

74.6%Illumination at noon UTC
19.7 dMoon age
404,184 km251,148 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (1°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 23, 1940 is on Saturday, August 17, 1940 at 23:03 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, September 2, 1940 at 04:15 UTC, 10 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, August 17, 194023:03
Last Quarter (after)Monday, August 26, 194003:33

The Moon around August 23

More about this date

Friday, August 23, 1940 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 3, 1940 to the new moon of September 2, 1940, a cycle of 29.34 days.