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The Moon on Tuesday, August 29, 1950: Waning Gibbous, 96% lit

Waning · 96.2% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 28°

Moon age

15.8days

Moon phase on August 29, 1950Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 29 August 1950392,152 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 29, 1950, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 96.2% of its visible face lit, 15.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

96.2%Illumination at noon UTC
15.8 dMoon age
392,152 km243,672 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (28°)
30.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 29, 1950 is on Sunday, August 27, 1950 at 14:51 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, September 12, 1950 at 03:29 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, August 27, 195014:51
Last Quarter (after)Monday, September 4, 195013:54

The Moon around August 29

More about this date

Tuesday, August 29, 1950 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 13, 1950 to the new moon of September 12, 1950, a cycle of 29.44 days.