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The Moon on Sunday, August 19, 1945: Waxing Gibbous, 82% lit

Waxing · 81.8% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 05°

Moon age

11.5days

Moon phase on August 19, 1945Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 19 August 1945388,646 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 19, 1945, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 81.8% of its visible face lit, 11.5 days after the new moon and growing each night.

81.8%Illumination at noon UTC
11.5 dMoon age
388,646 km241,493 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (6°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 19, 1945 is on Thursday, August 23, 1945 at 12:03 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, August 8, 1945 at 00:32 UTC, 11 days earlier.

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

The Moon around August 19

More about this date

Sunday, August 19, 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.