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The Moon on Saturday, August 18, 1945: Waxing Gibbous, 73% lit

Waxing · 73.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 22°

Moon age

10.5days

Moon phase on August 18, 1945Waxing Gibbous

Saturday 18 August 1945393,716 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, August 18, 1945, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 73.4% of its visible face lit, 10.5 days after the new moon and growing each night.

73.4%Illumination at noon UTC
10.5 dMoon age
393,716 km244,644 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (23°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 18, 1945 is on Thursday, August 23, 1945 at 12:03 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, August 8, 1945 at 00:32 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, August 16, 194500:27
Full Moon (after)Thursday, August 23, 194512:03

The Moon around August 18

More about this date

Saturday, August 18, 1945 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 8, 1945 to the new moon of September 6, 1945, a cycle of 29.55 days.