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The Moon on Sunday, August 19, 1951: Waning Gibbous, 93% lit

Waning · 92.7% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 27°

Moon age

16.6days

Moon phase on August 19, 1951Waning Gibbous

Sunday 19 August 1951375,422 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 19, 1951, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 92.7% of its visible face lit, 16.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

92.7%Illumination at noon UTC
16.6 dMoon age
375,422 km233,276 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (27°)
31.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 19, 1951 is on Friday, August 17, 1951 at 02:59 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, September 1, 1951 at 12:50 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, August 17, 195102:59
Last Quarter (after)Friday, August 24, 195110:20

The Moon around August 19

More about this date

Sunday, August 19, 1951 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 2, 1951 to the new moon of September 1, 1951, a cycle of 29.59 days.