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The Moon on Wednesday, August 18, 1943: Waning Gibbous, 90% lit

Waning · 89.7% lit · ♈︎ Aries 02°

Moon age

17.3days

Moon phase on August 18, 1943Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 18 August 1943366,347 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 18, 1943, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 89.7% of its visible face lit, 17.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

89.7%Illumination at noon UTC
17.3 dMoon age
366,347 km227,637 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (2°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 18, 1943 is on Sunday, August 15, 1943 at 19:34 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 30, 1943 at 20:00 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, August 15, 194319:34
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, August 22, 194316:05

The Moon around August 18

More about this date

Wednesday, August 18, 1943 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 1, 1943 to the new moon of August 30, 1943, a cycle of 29.66 days.